From €2m price to just €950,000, Bridelands is your perfect match

A DRAMATIC slashing in price, by more than 50%, may find a new, long-term partner for Bridelands House. Down from an aspirational €2m, in September, 2007, it had, at one stage in the last year, gone ‘sale agreed’ at €1.3m, but that was subject to the sale of another property.

Now, agents Sherry FitzGerald, in Cork city, have more than halved the initial asking price, seeking €950,000 for the real deal period home, 14 miles west of Cork city on the Macroom-Killarney road.

This huge drop in price should bring a cohort of buying interest, and, perhaps, rekindle the interest of those who might have looked at it two years ago, but wouldn’t stretch to the price sought.

At just under the €1m mark, it could now be quite a catch, and with eight acres plus stables, will provide horses for courses for families wanting the country house lifestyle, without living too far off the beaten track.

A large, extended, and overall good condition Georgian home, Bridelands House has 4,000 sq ft of space and five bedrooms, in a profile setting facing south across the N22 between Farnanes and Lissarda.

Its vendors used it both as a family home and for guests, for a period, and acquired it in the mid-1990s. It’s expected that its next owner will be a family, trading up or possibly relocating.

A solid, square Georgian home, it was at, one time, a presbytery, which was upgraded and extended with a castelated, side-and-rear annex added in the 1970s.

The house has good, generous, interconnected reception rooms, a kitchen with an Aga and lots of period detailing, as well, including a fine staircase, internal arches and cornice work, plus fine fireplaces.

Outside, there’s a good, lofted, stone-built coach house off the approach avenue with conversion potential, and hundreds of beech trees have been planted up this avenue.

There’s separate access to the well-built table block, with four boxes, tack room, hay room and a 40’ by 20’ sand arena: for new owners not into horses, this section can easily be rented and the house kept privately, says Sheila O’Flynn, of Sherry FitzGerald.