South-facing split-level with classical styling not resting on its laurels

THE Olympics might be wrapping up this weekend, but it isn’t too late to get wrapped up or wreathed in laurels, if you house-hunt just up-river of Bandon town in west Cork.

A new market offering here, on the highly-regarded Laurel Walk residential enclave just west and north of the busy town, has a €740,000 asking price with appeal to local Bandon families trading up, as well as those thinking of combining a Cork city daily job and a more country-based lifestyle.

This Laurel Walk house, with lots of external decorative detailing, dates only to 2000, and was added to again in 2005: as a result, it has almost 2,100 sq ft (195 sq metres) of living space, all on a rapidly matured site of one-third of an acre.