A tasteful slice of rural idyll

ALL simply and tastily done is this Inch cottage on its half-acre rural site east of Cork city near Killeagh, Youghal and the sea.

Refurbished about four years ago, the two-bed house and its grounds offers a taste of rural idyll for a €255,000 or so guide via Heagarty Properties in Midleton.

It has a bright and warm charm, with buckets of white paint applied to the walls and timber-beamed ceilings. The windows are fairly modern in white PVC, and both the sitting and dining rooms have wood-burning stoves, with a back boiler in the dining room. The sitting room is the full width of the end of the house and has windows on facing sides, with French doors on the gable for a third glazed aspect.