Bungalow comes with overhead apartment

ONE of the nicest approaches to any Irish town is the way the road drops down into Clonakilty town through towering old hardwood trees: you just know that you are entering a place with a long history.

This curving, wooded approach with century, or more, old chestnut and beech trees is called the Convent Road, with the convent’s land banks up on the right, and large individual family homes on elevated sites on the left.

And that’s where this West Cork house enters the pretty picture at a time of autumn russet colours. Built a few decades ago, and since extended, the bungalow home has four bedrooms, with an overhead self-contained apartment.

With close on 3,000 sq ft of internal space, it is on the market with John Loughnane of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill, with a guide price of €695,000, and has a number of well-conceived features to maximise its internal lay-out and brightness.

Chief of these is the large sunny room to the front, with tall panel windows, and it houses an open plan dining, smart kitchen and lounge area, looking over the sloping garden to the wooded splendour on the boundaries. Overall accommodation includes hall, living room, kitchen/dining room, utility, four bedrooms and bathroom, and overhead is a kitchen/dining room with one en suite bedroom, under sloping ceilings. There’s also a large detached garage, oil-fired central heating and mains services.