Two detached country homes offer a touch of the green near Cork city

THINK the convenience of a country setting close to Cork city and its bright new airport and business park, think detached status, think a bit of garden space, and think in the region of €500/550,000 plus for a couple of summer 2006 options, each on a half acre plot.

Two options in south Cork’s tightly-controlled green hinterland come to mind, for individual sale with two of the bigger city agents.

Sherry FitzGerald seek €500,000 for a 1,300 sq ft extended cottage on half an acre at Meadstown, above Ballygarvan village. It is currently under offer, at around €460,000 after a couple of weeks on the market.

Meanwhile, Hamilton Osborne King seek €550,000 for Camelot, a smart-enough bungalow, owned by a designer but with an interior on the conservative side, located off the main Cork Kinsale Road near Five Mile Bridge at Ballinphellic. It too is on a private half-acre plot.

This latter arrival is a three-bed, with scope to adapt, extend or convert an attached double garage if further space is required.

Rooms include a large-ish living room at 20’ by 13’, a separate dining room with arched entrance way to the kitchen, while the compact-enough kitchen also opens in turn to a conservatory which leads to the garden via sliding doors.

One of the three bedrooms has a connecting door to the main family bathroom, there’s a separate shower room, and all three bedrooms have built-ins.

There’s oil heating, PVC double glazing, and an alarm.

Back closer to Ballygarvan village, where Bride View Homes have already built over 100 houses and developers John F Supple are set to follow on another site with new homes, Sherry FitzGerald have The Meadows, Meadstown.

Originally a small cottage, it has been extended upwards and laterally, and separately there’s a self-contained guest/fourth bedroom added in the last year, which has an en suite bathroom, utility space and lean-to glasshouse.

The main portion of the smartly-presented home has kitchen, living room, dining room, and ground floor bedroom, with two more first floor bedrooms, plus bathroom. The gardens are a bonus, well-kept and with low stone walls, and there is still further extension potential.