€1m price partly based on period home’s half-acre site

A PERIOD home in Clonakilty, Co Cork, has character and aspect - and a half-acre site with development potential that underpins its e1m asking price with local agent Ray O’Neill, of the Sherry Fitzgerald franchise.

Mr O’Neill is selling the 3,200 sq ft home, Sunville, on the Western Road. It has period trimmings, four bedrooms and a sun room - with a profile to the Western Road and 100 feet of frontage - behind an attractive, cut-stone wall with cast-low railings.

In addition, there’s a second dwelling at the rear, which is described as a traditional ‘long house’. This has 650 sq ft of convertible space. At present, it is laid out as two garages, and could be used as a surgery, home office, clinic or apartment.

Sunville has a mature half-acre garden “which could be ripe for development, in this sought-after residential situation,” says Mr O’Neill, though, in recent months, An Bord Pleanala has turned down two development proposals in the town that had UDC support, including a disused garage site on Western Road.

Sunville has considerable old-style charm, with high ceilings, fireplaces, picture rails, pitch-pine staircase and plaster-work.

The accommodation at ground level includes a conservatory entrance, a 25’ by 13’ sitting room, a separate 20’ by 13’ drawing room, kitchen/breakfast room, pantry, utility and a store on the ground floor. The first floor has four bedrooms and a main bathroom on the stair return.

Overhead there are three attic rooms.