Wisteria-dripping Oysterhaven property has lots of extras

THERE are properties out there that throw everything and the kitchen sink into the package.

And you’d have to admire the high level of owner energy required to bring about a tick-box production.

Take this house in Oysterhaven, Co Cork, for instance. Dripping with wisteria, it’s a prime property in a prime area with a list of extras.

A modern dormer, this Ballinclashet house sits on an immaculate site of 1.25 acres just short of Oysterhaven village and overlooks the creek of the same name.

It has the mandatory sweeping driveway and at the western boundary is formed by a stream. Best of all, the house has two moorings, one shallow and one deep water, and the approach is through luscious, high summer gardens.

Billiard table lawns, frothy flower beds and a fruit orchard of cherry, apple and plum are part of a package, as is a soft fruit patch with strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrant and rhubarb.

And despite its obvious status as bucolic idyll, this Ballinclashet property is only a 15 minute commute to Cork city with good local amenities for families. The Oysterhaven Adventure Centre is down the road and there’s a good restaurant within walking distance: good shopping and everything else can be had in Kinsale a short drive way.

Offering 2,650 square feet of space, the house has a range of good reception rooms that include a large, formal lounge which connects to the circular conservatory opening onto the garden.

The kitchen/breakfast room also has patio doors to the garden and fittings are in waxed pine with a large dining area. Then, there’s the separate and more formal dining room, a family room and a study or fourth bedroom.

At dormer level there are three double bedrooms, including master suite and a second ensuite bedroom. Also included is the main bathroom and there’s a guest loo at ground floor level.

Ideal as a versatile, family home, says Patricia O’Regan of Sheehy Brothers, the house is on the market for in the region of €1.3 million. This is beer money in comparison to some of the properties in this area. Close by, the five year old, Tide’s Reach has just gone sale agreed with the same agents for close to its guide price of €2.75m.