Trading Up
Bedrooms: 5
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
Ledbury is a property that fits a number of buying criteria — not least hobby farm, with views.
Set on three acres in the beautiful Blackwater Valley, this architect-designed bungalow is being sold because its owners are trading up.
Work, rest and play is how it’s described by agents Property Partners Dick Barry in Fermoy, as this Conna, Co Cork home with offices is rural, yet accessible.
A split-level bungalow, it comes with five bedrooms, two reception rooms, a spacious fitted kitchen and an extended sun-room and it’s all bang up to standard. The views from the sun room include counties Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick, with horse gallops nearby
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 comes with its own kitchen and bathroom. Fitted with landline broadband, it has a reception room, main office and second, smaller office.
The outside has four stables and three acres of paddock. 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.
Sq m: 109 (1,175 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
Built just in time for the millennium, and looking like it might have been a century-old cottage updated, this Derrnanne Beg house on three-quarters of an acre is a new arrival to market, in time for summer 2012.
Built very much in vernacular, farmhouse style with chimneys on the gables and with rough plaster finishes off-set by a stone-faced detached garage, this is a retreat within a short downhill stroll of the national park at Derrynane House, as well as the white sand beaches, pier and sailing facilities beyond.
Selling agents are Brid Moran who lives locally, and Clare O’Sullivan of Savills in Cork City, and they guide the almost 1,200 sq ft house on its elevated, views-soaking site at €3230,000.
It has got two of its four bedrooms overhead under the dormer roof, along with a shared bathroom, and there’s another bathroom at ground level and the two other bedrooms. The main living room is 19’ square, with a patio door on a gable to the right of an open brick fireplace. The rest of the heating is from electric storage heat rads.
The grounds are landscaped naturally, with stone entrance pillars and boundaries, plus garage.
VERDICT: Nice and bright, with a southerly aspect in one of Ireland’s natural beauty spots.
Sq m: 280 (3,000 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 5 —
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
It does what it says on the tin, or on the name plate — Old Head View is a place with a head-turning vista.
Set high up a sloping hill a few miles out of Kinsale and around 45 minutes from Cork city and airport, this modern stone-faced five-bed home on a half an acre has some stunning southerly views, down over farmland to the peninsula with the Old Head of Kinsale lighthouse and its world-renowned golf course.
Auctioneer Ernest Forde of Hodnett Forde is seeking offers around €660,000 for Old Head View, up above the Speckled Door bar and restaurant, with beaches also nearby at Garrettstown.
Mr Forde says the 3,000 sq ft home had views over nearby Dooneen Strand and far beyond and was designed to take advantage of that dramatic coastline vista.
Rooms include up to six bedrooms (one is used as an office) and four of them are en suite, plus main 24’ by 14’ sitting/dining room, a living room with stove, kitchen with breakfast room, utility and main bathroom.
Many of the rooms have French doors to a cobble-lock patio, and the bulk of the site is in lawns, with parking, tarmac drive, lawns, shed and shrub beds.
VERDICT: Large and accommodating modern family home in a great coastal setting.
Sq m: 214 (2,300 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
Absolutely great value, and a top class house — that’s the just relaunched family home Mardel, on Cork’s Clash Road by Carrigrohane.
Five minutes by car from Bishopstown, via either Curraheen or the Model Farm Road, this is a detached family dormer home of 2,300 sq ft, on a half-acre site with garden sheds and a workshop, all in great order, notes estate agent Michael O’Donoghue of Real Estate Alliance O’Donoghue Clarke.
He now seeks offers around €460,000 for Mardel. Two year ago, when first put up for sale, the price guide was €710,000 and it was withdrawn some time later by the current owners who now are once more keen to move.
Mr O’Donoghue says it has all the right credentials, with a quality interior as the vendors have been in the furnishing business (it shows) and it has high-end built-ins and two en suite bedrooms.
The kitchen/dining room is open and airy, with rear sun-trap patio and garden access, and with a couple of steps down to a carpeted living room: this area is 44’ by 18’ at its max measurements. There’s also a lounge, study, utility, and guest bathroom.
VERDICT: Families who missed Mardel two years ago might do well to snap it up at its significantly revised price.
Sq m: 224 (2,400 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
A site of 0.2 of an acre on the city end of Cork’s Model Farm will draw interest to Líos Bán — along with its 2,400 sq ft of space and detached status.
It comes up for sale with agents Frank V Murphy & Co, just weeks after a very high-end, extended five-bed nearby came to market with Sherry FitzGerald, and that €520,000 rival offer is already reportedly under very active and appreciative viewings.
With a marginally higher AMV, at €575,000, Líos Bán will appeal to the same coterie of buyers who will want to balance its detached status with its need for modernisation. But it’s quite a fine home, with a good balance of living and sleeping areas, bay windows, sash windows and more. It has an L-shaped living/dining room, with sun room off via sliding doors, which opens the house up from front to back on the right hand side, while off to the left is a separate lounge, plus midships kitchen and rear utility and guest WC.
Upstairs, the master bedroom is to the front with a deep bay window, it has a dressing room and en suite with corner shower and a Jacuzzi bath, and the main family bathroom has a three piece suite.
VERDICT: Great character.
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