Trading up: CONNA, CORK €440,000

LEDBURY is a property that fits a number of buying criteria — not least, hobby farm.

Set on three acres in the beautiful Blackwater Valley, this architect-designed bungalow is being sold because its owners are trading up — to a proper farm.

Work, rest and play is how it’s described by Maurice Cohalan of Cohalan Downing and this Conna, Co Cork home is rural, but accessible — it’s not on Mars.

A split-level bungalow it comes with five bedrooms, two reception rooms, a spacious fitted kitchen and an extended sunroom and it’s all bang up to standard.

The ‘work’ attribute involves the drive-in office space at the lower half of the split level bungalow.

This is separate from the house and suitable for any number of uses, (there’s a basement garage too) and comes with its own kitchen and bathroom.

Fitted with landline broadband, it has a reception room, main office and second, smaller office.

The outside, meanwhile, has four stables and three acres of paddock with all the necessary out offices and equipment for a proper, equestrian facility.

There’s a feed storage/ tack room, a wash down area and a sand arena and a gardening zone with glass house and vegetable garden.

VERDICT: A country home that ticks all the boxes.