Modern take on farmhouse shape

THE house name is already attractive, and coming into its season, and the house ain’t half bad either.

Blossomgrove is a recently budded dormer home take on the traditional Irish farmhouse shape, but manages to get in the sort of creature comforts country dwellers of yore could only have dreamed of.

Built in 2007, this is a big 2,650 sq f two-storey house near Glanmire in Co Cork, a real trader-up option for a large hinterland, and is on a quarter acre site, price-guided at e680,000.

The planing locally is A3, which means it is pretty much restricted and so underpins the site value alone, while the quality of finish is very high, say local agents Dan O’Connell auctioneers.

A sun room off the lounge opens up a combined useful room of 25’ by 16,’ with fireplace in the lounge area and overhead Veluxes in the sun room section which has timber-clad ceilings.

There’s one ground floor bedroom, utility, a guest WC, kitchen/dining/living space with Pippi oak units and granite tops, and overhead are three bedrooms, two with walk-in wardrobes and one en suite (with Jacuzzi), plus main family bathroom. The big master bedroom has combined wall and roof Velux windows.