Enjoy sea views from a dormer on three-acre site in prized Sandycove

A GREAT site, all three acres of it, will bring viewers to Tullyhill, a dormer built in 2000 that has ocean-wide and island vistas.

Location is by the brow of a hill at chic Sandycove, a postcard-pretty cove, inlet, and slipway sheltered by an island just west of Kinsale harbour, with the Old Head of Kinsale golf course and sandy beaches a few miles distance.

Its owners came here from the UK, and joined an ex-pat community here in Sandycove, less than two miles from Kinsale. Sandycove is home to fairly flash, new and contemporary homes, and, in fact, one built in the 1990s is directly beneath this site, with a multi-storey conservatory, a conical slate roof, and with other roof portions grass-covered.

But, from Tullyhill itself, the eye is drawn only to the sea and over Sandycove island, home at various times to sheep, goats, and rabbits. There’s also views back over toward the Old Head lighthouse, and to Kinsale’s harbour mouth in the other direction. Come summer, the waters below will be dotted with craft of many shapes and sizes.

This dormer home has three first-floor bedrooms, with the best views of all from bedroom four/study, says selling agent, Eamonn O’Neill.

There may be scope for a further house site on the three acres, and this adds to its value, though there’s value alone in the amount of space: very few houses near Sandycove have anything like this amount of ground with them.

Guide price is €1.6m and it could sell for just over or under this sum.

Much of the ground is terraced and landscaped, there’s also lawns and paddock, and the aspect is south and westerly. There’s also a double garage, and a greenhouse.

Inside in this architect-designed, double-fronted house, rooms range off a large 30’ by 10’ hall with mezzanine, the 20’ by 15’ lounge has a limestone fireplace and the room opens to a terrace, and there’s a dining room, kitchen/breakfast with granite-topped painted units and a tiled floor, as well as utility and guest WC. The en-suite master bedroom is at ground level, has windows on three sides, and has a dressing area with robes. Occupying one of the best ‘seats’ in the hinterland, Tullyhill gets great light, the widest of views, and heating is via oil, water comes from a deep bore well, and there’s a biocycle for waste.