Always wanted to live on the edge? Now’s the time

IF you are looking for a coastal Co Cork home, your boat might just have come in. In fact, it could be at the end of the garden.

The accurately, if unimaginatively, named, Seaview is a Fennell's Bay house that is going to cause a bit of a property market stir the sale includes the option of a one-acre site with planning for a split level dormer.

Seaview is on a cliff-top site; with a rocky outcrop beneath, a spot that has caused trouble for boats in the past.

Views to the east are to the mouth of Cork harbour, while to the west is Myrtleville and Bunnyconnellan's bar and restaurant with the diving spot, Poulgorm, beyond again. Crosshaven is a five-minute drive, and Cork city less than 30 minutes.

On the market with Mark Kelly of Hamilton Osborne King, Seaview is on 2.25 acres, and has a €600,000 price guide for the house on 1.25 acres, while an adjoining acre site higher up, with 180 degree sea views, has full planning permission for a 1,750 sq ft dormer home and this is priced at €350,000.

The main house is essentially an extended cottage with two large bay windows in the kitchen/dining area, it has about 1,500 sq ft of living space and the grounds include a pond, waterfall and patios.

Rooms include a bright porch entrance, a decent-size sitting room with solid fuel stove and an oak floor. This room has double doors to the kitchen/dining room, with pitch pine units and Belfast sink.

Pine and pitch pine features in the floor and ceilings in two of the three ground floor bedrooms and in the bathroom. The top floor has another bedroom, with en suite.

The grounds include a garage with Velux and utility.

The property has oil heating and partial double glazing.