Lissard Lodge is beyond the norm

LOTS of architectural salvage — plus the decorating eye of a woman who offers interior design advice — set the house Lissard Lodge apart from the norm. Built near Dunderrow, up river from Kinsale along the Bandon river in Co Cork, this 1990s home has 2,400 sq ft of living space on a half acre of extensively worked grounds and gardens.

It has been put up for sale with local agent Kevin Murphy, who seeks €645,000 and who says it is an ideal detached trading up house, in a place where planning permissions are hard to secure.

Faced in stone, and with green pvc windows making a bit of a design statement, it has four bedrooms, with solid wood floors, hall with Rhodesian mahogany floor, 27’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room with inglenook-style fireplace with a cast-iron stove, sitting room, family room, and main bathroom with period style sanitary ware and salvaged Victorian radiators. Rooms are well decorated and there is a good use of woods throughout. The gardens have also had work and though put into them, and there’s a detached garage for storage, pergola, and a sheltered sunken patio and seating area, ringed by hedging.