Cottage has a ready-to-go price

Tommy Barker says rehabilitated Bunlick has had extensive work done inside and out in the past year.

EMPTY for the last 20 years, but now done over from stem to stern is this smart Bunlick farm cottage.

On the Skibbereen to Baltimore Road in West Cork, near the golf course, and also close to the marine habitat extraordinaire Lough Hyne, it is on a third of an acre site and carries a ready-to-go price of €350,000.

The vendors, Ken and Catherine O'Mahony, with a few Cork city renovations under their belts, and living in West Cork for the last few years, spent over a year rehabilitating this two-storey cottage with add-on wings (old out-houses) at either end.

It needed pretty much everything done, from re-wiring, plumbing, roofing, replastering, stone pointing, re-building chimneys, new floors and damp proofing.

And, the icing on top of all that work is the stylish twist given to the decor which keeps it country, yet contemporary.

It has about 1,050 sq ft of fully-worked out space, with attention to details and finishes, from the sand and cement plasterwork through cool colours and the hand-built kitchen.

There's a ground floor living room with new stone fireplace and sturdy mantle, a kitchen/dining room in a former out-house with pitched and timber-sheeted ceilings and Veluxes, and an en suite master bedroom at ground level.

Overhead, there's two further bedrooms and a shower room.

"This home is big enough for full-time occupation, or small enough for holiday home use, it will appeal to a lot of buyers," say agents Henry O'Leary Property Partners. It has a biocycle for waste treatment, mains water supply and an added extra is a compact (room-sized) stone shed, recently weatherproofed with new roof, barges and doors.