Far from the madding crowd

IT can’t be said often enough that moving out of the city makes financial, and even psychological, sense, and, considering the price of houses in middle Ireland, this could prove easy.

For a quarter of the cost of a studio apartment in Dublin or the average price of a starter home in Cork city, you can have a very attractive, five-bedroomed house in Tipperary.

Waking up every morning to fresh air and a tiny mortgage could make up for the lack of pizza delivery and if that’s your mindset, then Camblin in Roscrea could be worth the once over.

For sale through Anne-Louise Mitchell of Victor Mitchell Auctioneers, the house is a detached, dormer bungalow on offer at €250,000.

Post and rail fencing, Virginia creeper clad walls and lots of trees are all part of the charm and the interior is country chic.

A range comes with the pine kitchen/living room and the sitting room has a cast iron fireplace. Most rooms have wooden floors and there are three bedrooms and a bathroom at ground floor level, with a further two rooms overhead. All the bedrooms are generously proportioned, and one of the attic rooms is 17’ by 14’.

The house has a site of just over three-quarters of an acre, divided into separate areas and the sale includes a double garage and a large detached shed of 40’ by 20’.