Trading up
Sq m: 250 (2,700 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
BER rating: N/A
A classic of its type, Glebe House at Co Tipperary’s Drumbaun is graceful, elegant — and every so slightly landed.
Its land extends to seven acres, so it’s more for the hobby farmer, horse or pony-owning, country lifestyle enthusiast. And, it’s all so restful, set in pasture and woodland, with leafy bowers past cast iron entrance pillars, orchards, vegetable garden, glasshouse, barn and hen house, cut stone and brick stables, guest apartment, and a whole host more.
The attractive mix, near Drumbaun, Newport Co Tipperary is new to market with Colette Hanly of Clare Tipp Properties who extols its Victorian charm, (it was associated with the Galway/Tipperary land-owning Bloomfield family), its 1880s provenance, its ambience — and its market availability.
She guides the Glebe House at €575,000, and says the main house has about 2,700 sq ft, with three reception rooms including library, four bedrooms with one en suite, main and back stairs, old-style kitchen with retained tiled floor and oil range and a mix of service rooms, wine store and a boot room. Most of the rooms, including bedrooms, have architectural detailing and originality abounds.
Gleeful glebe.
Sq m: 184 (2,000 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3
BER rating: B2
You can see Kerry and the Paps mountains along the Cork-Kerry county bounds, thanks to the elevated setting of this great Kilmurray/ Lissarda house.
Set up and above the Cork-Macroom/ Kerry road, a 25 minute spin from Cork city, the commute to and fro is now even easier thanks to the flyovers on the city’s ring road — in fact, the only traffic lights now between this house and Newlands Cross in Dublin(!) are at the Jack Lynch tunnel.
This one-off, with high spec and high performance double glazed windows as just one example, is on great grounds of 1.75 acres, with lots of planting, near Kilmurray village, school and woods.
Agent Tom Heffernan of Sherry FitzGerald Hinchion in Macroom says the two-storey house was built to exacting standards by its owners, and has quality finishes, plus a black Rayburn range in the kitchen under a chunky pitch-pine beam, with second corner oven and hob as a quick-serve back-up. Units here are in elm, and there are French doors to the gardens.
Rooms appear especially bright, and there’s a hall with gallery landing above, lounge with antique fireplace with cast iron surround, dining room with stove, (oil-fired), and a pair of bay windows.
There’s also a ground floor guest bedroom and bathroom plus utility, and overhead are three bedrooms, with en suite master with walk-in robes, and family shower room.
A quality job with room to breathe.
Sq m: 102 (1,050 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
BER rating: E1
Set to make a stir in the suburban semi-d market is this three-bed home at 11, Linden Avenue.
It’s one among legions of similar era semis set in those banks of estates in the city’s ‘B’ suburbs —- as in B for Beaumont, or Ballintemple, or Ballinlough or Blackrock.
They are all enjoying a surge of popularity in the last few years as a property market readjustment throws a spotlight back on the essentials underpinning a viable house market — location and services. Set in an older, well-serviced southside/eastern suburban setting a short commute (bike, bus, shank’s mare, car) of the city centre, it’s got schools and shops all to hand too for its €285,000 asking price via agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing, who reports immediate interest and early bids.
Giving No 11 a bit of an edge is its 90’ long back garden, and extra foot or two of width on its site to the side, so extending should be a doddle with light and aspect to grab.
As it stands, No 11’s got a standard semi-d layout of three beds, two reception plus kitchen (with serving hatch to the back dining room, which has a patio door), and is in very clean condition, with modern kitchen, double glazing and gas heating.
A flier.
Sq m: 175 (1,900 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 1
BER rating: NA
It’s so very un-Graham Norton — but so very Graham Walker. This Bandon bungalow up for sale with a €235,000 price tag was, for a number of years, the family home of TV superstar Graham Norton, back in his formative years when he attended Bandon Grammar and UCC - which last year awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Built in the 1970s, the Coolattin, Coolfadda, four-bed bungalow was home to parents Rhoda and Billy Walker, Graham, and his sister Paula after Wicklow-born Billy put down West Cork roots. Billy had worked as a Guinness rep — and now, his son is probably as famous an Irish brand as the 1759-established stout.
The Walker family (Norton’s a stage name) sold their bungalow about 23 years ago to its current owners, who are downsizing.
The site and setting is excellent and the grounds are mature, but the house is in need of some updating.
It has 1,900 sq ft in all on a site just shy of an acre west of Bandon on the Dunmanway Road. It features a great Bandon valley vista, as well as views over Castle Bernard and the golf club — however, the notion of Graham Norton in golf garb or Pringle is just a sartorial stretch too far.
If walls could talk, they’d have a chat show.
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