Quirky additions at Sycamore House

This is a great Blarney house that’s just perfect for young families, Rose Martin reports.

BUILT by its engineer owner, Sycamore House is a solid investment and it’s the kind of detached house that young families need.

Plenty of play room in a safe, rear garden, and plenty of internal room for those long wintry days when space to run around is even more important.

This newish house isn’t straight off the peg either, and has some quirky additions, like the church window, with stained glass in the dining room and the integrated, sloping sun room on the southern elevation.

The vendors are preparing to move and have put their house and over a third of an acre of garden on the market with Michael Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy for offers in the region of €475,000.

Really well presented, this house has a fresh, interior approach, but with respect for older things, and there are lovely antiques dotted here and there, not least in the guest bedroom.

The hub of the house is the kitchen, which is just off the entrance hallway, and this comes with vanilla units with island unit and access through to the dining room, which has double doors to the gardens and a southerly patio area.

The main, formal living space is a good, rectangular room with classic fireplace and it has double doors to the sunroom, now used as a playroom.

Then, there’s a second, informal living room on the western end of the house and overhead there are four good bedrooms, with en suite master and an enormous main bathroom with Jacuzzi and stand alone shower.

VERDICT: A great house for trading up as it’s a move-in proposition and has a secluded situation as part of an estate of other one-off houses on Station Road, close to Blarney village.