Relaxed rural lifestyle with plenty of development potential to boot
Pretty perfectly shaped to fit that relaxed rural lifestyle is this upgraded farmhouse at Breeda, Killeagh in east Cork, a place with a bit of cuisine edge to it.
Down the end of a leafy (well, up until this month’s winds) boreen, this is a three or four-bed two-storey house with charm and clambering wisteria and clematis (seasonally de-leafed), with a kitchen fitted for professional cheffery and stainlessly steeled to the last degree, in complete contrast to the rest of the country home look.
And there’s land, sheds with development or studio potential, stores, drifts of herbs and a polytunnel for year-round horticultural production, to keep that busy-looking kitchen humming. If you want to weave your way from loam to loom, a side gable annexe has what’s called the Loom Room upstairs, with external access, in a slate-hung structure over a garage/parking area.
The owner is a keen cook, and clearly nimble and green-fingered to boot, with natural landscaping in evidence and some bamboos planted for interest, but carefully corralled in ceramic pots to stop the rampant spread of roots.
The house, on an acre of land and with convertible old sheds that are only partly restored, is eight miles from Tallow, and six from Youghal and Killeagh. It is being marketed via Lismore estate agent Ken Madden. He seeks €425,000 and stresses its country credentials and charm. There’s a possible option, he adds, of either renting or buying adjoining old pasture and stabling, if one wants to go the whole horse or hogget self-sufficiency route.
The house is long and narrow, with a little more than 2,000 sq ft of space and features such as waxed and stripped pine doors and floors, and while there’s underfloor heating at ground level with radiators upstairs, there’s also a cast-iron solid fuel stove in the main 25’ by 15’ living room. It has a beamed ceiling, salvaged pitch pine floor and French doors out to a Liscannor-slabbed patio for outdoor dining.
Liscannor stone is also used in the hall, WC, and ground-floor guest bedrooms/study.
Other crafty material features include mosaic tiling in the laundry room worktops and in the heavily tiled, modern-styled bathroom.
The heart of the house is the kitchen, with slate floor and professional quality kitchen, with overhanging pots and pans and stainless steel fitted units. It has a Zanussi gas four-burner hob and oven, integrated dishwasher, fridge freezer, and a central unit with table top and storage/fitted shelving.
Overhead, the landing has reclaimed pitch-pine floors, and the original wide old boards have been kept in the master bedroom, which has fitted wardrobes and that extensively mosaiced en suite. The two other bedrooms up here share use of the main bathroom.
The house has mains services, Sky satellite, and the sale includes curtains and fitting, while furniture is also available by negotiation. Pots and pans too, at a scrape.
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