Spacious Youghal dormer priced to sell

WITH a price reduction now in place, this 3,000 sq ft property at Ballinvarrig near Youghal in East Cork is priced to sell.

The 1996-build red-brick dormer is on a fine rural acre site, and apart from the main house of 2,700 sq ft there’s a detached one-bed apartment, with space on two levels which are linked by a spiral staircase. Originally built by Youghal’s town clerk, it has been lived in and extended in recent years by a UK couple who are now moving on.

Estate agent Fiona Hennessy of Sherry FitzGerald Hennessy, with Noel Mackey, now guides it at €475,000, and says the vendors are open to offers and keen to move on from this handy location, about a 10-minute drive from Youghal and its beaches.

It fits in a hall, sitting room with wood floors and double doors to a dining room, kitchen with wood built-ins, a utility, a study, two of its four bedrooms are en suite, one of which is at ground level, with three bedrooms plus main bathroom at first floor level in the dormer.

Heating is via oil, with a solar panel recently fitted and visible on the front of the house’s roof section, and the vendors swear by its efficiency.

The self-contained apartment has sitting room, kitchen, shower room and bedroom, and there’s a block-built storage shed.