Charming Scobaun has elevated views

THERE'S an amount of charm and character to Scobaun, a quirky restored and extended West Cork home.

Sort of a cottage all grown-up, the period-style dwelling is on an elevated acre, five miles from chic Castletownshend, and carries a price guide in line with that area's high values over €900,000 is sought.

Its elevation gives it views to Galley Head and lighthouse, Cape Clear and Fastnet to the west, the perilous Stags rocks are comfortably offshore and local beaches nearby are Sandy Cove and Traharta.

Selling agent is Charles McCarthy in Skibbereen, and the place was initially restored by UK-based owner, and has latterly been owned by a German artist.

"It is unusual in that it is an older property with views. Very often houses of this vintage were positioned for shelter, which meant they didn't have views of the sea, whereas this house has views and still gets shelter from the immediate landscape," he says.

It is not a particularly large house, and has just three bedrooms (one is an optional studio/bedroom three), as well as kitchen, sitting room, dining room and utility. The two main en-suite bedrooms are at first floor level.

The place has been extended out to the side, and appealing features are the three jaunty dormer windows, round gable wall bedroom window, and the sheltered stone-flagged terrace, with three French doors to the 22' by 14' dining room.

The grounds have been carefully tended, and include an ornamental pond, stone waling and stone feature flourishes, such as an end-of-terrace stone gable with circular cut-out to frame the views. There's also a workshop, garage and greenhouse.