Four-beds in commuter belt

TAKE your pick. Two houses on two sites of one acre each just off the main Cork/Macroom road offer an almost identical choice to trader-uppers.

Ideal for Cork city commuters, because of the location off the N22, the houses are also within a short distance of Macroom and Bandon.

And they offer the now standard package of four bedrooms and a square footage of 2,000 square feet, the average size for a new-build, country house.

Don Brennan of Sherry FitzGerald Brennan Busteed is looking for offers in the region of €425,000 for the houses and says they come without stamp duty for first-time buyers.

The location is superb, he says, just two miles off the main road and each house comes with a clean slate for new owners.

The design is very smart, with a large, galleried entrance hallway, a huge sitting room to the left with windows on three sides and on the right hand wing, there’s a large, living room open plan to a kitchen diner and then to a utility.

The master bedroom runs over the living room and has a full bathroom, while bedrooms two, three and four share a main bathroom off a wide landing. The grounds are landscaped, with a tarmac driveway from the road. The houses are 2km from Crookstown village.