B&B may join home exodus

THE days of the Irish B&B are no more over than the full Irish breakfast has bitten the dust, but the traditional tourism accommodation market is in change.

A number of one-time bed and breakfast establishments have come up for sale in recent years, more aimed in their sales pitch at private family home buyers than working home businesses.

The changes, and acknowledged scaling back of the B&B sector, have to do with changing holiday patterns, competition from the latest crop of budget hotels, the dominance of east coast urban tourism — plus the fact so many Irish people now own holiday homes, at home and abroad.

This Ardmore house, Carraigin, at Monea Crescent, is up for sale guiding €500,000 with Sherry FitzGerald Hennessy.

It could go either way, private or B&B, and has five bedrooms, with three en suite bathrooms, and 2,300 sq ft of high quality adaptable living space, within a five minute walk of the west Waterford resort village and its sandy beach.

It has the views that Ardmore is famous for, the beach, the Atlantic ocean and the round tower, the latter being one of the best examples of these constructions in the country.

Internally, this quite big and detached dormer has two well kept principal reception rooms, a bright kitchen/dining room with blue-painted units, and a wide hall.

It also has one ground floor bedroom, en suite, and four more bedrooms, two of which have en suite bathrooms, and a main bathroom overhead.

The sale includes appliances, and the vendors will probably thrown in a freezer full of breakfast rashers and sausages if the price is right.