Spacious offering

BUILT just last year, the four-bed, three bathroom detached dormer home at Bawnard East, near Midleton in east Cork, has 2,700 sq ft of space and an asking price just €10k short of half a million euros.

The practically finished, but not yet lived in, house is just half a kilometre or so from Ballinacurra which is on the edge of the town, near the N25.

Selling agent Lawrence Sweeney of Property Partners Cronin Wall says the site size is an acre, and that apart from the 2,700 sq ft main house there’s a detached lofted garage with staircase, and potential for a granny flat or den here.

The area, off the Whitegate Road and opposite the turn to East Ferry, is prestigious, according to Mr Sweeney, who adds that the proximity to the town for a place with this amount of space and ground is drawing trading up interest: “the old adage of location definitely applies to this fantastic new build,” he observes.

He sold an old cottage on this site a few years ago, when the site/cottage attracted dozens of viewers because of the location: “I was practically living on site for three weeks,” he recalls. It sold after just three weeks, in the mid-€300,000s, and was replaced by this new-build.

Rooms include a long hall, glazed double doors to a 27’ by 20’ sitting/dining room with fireplace and patio doors, a sun room with triple aspect and garden access, and the 18’ by 15’ kitchen also has garden access.

The house needs some final floor finishes, but tiling is done, and the upper floor needs partitions for bedrooms.

There’s a utility, guest WC, main bathroom adjacent to a bedroom, another en suite bedroom, and one of the other two remaining bedroom spaces overhead has scope for a further en suite.

Almost all of the exterior of this Bawnard East home has stone walls, and there’s central vacuum, zoned oil heating and a gravel drive.