No need to go nutty on this cracker

This beautiful house is a handy 40-minute drive from Cork city, writes Tommy Barker

Give it time, and you could harvest your own walnut floors for this West Cork cottage home, at The Hollies, near Coppeen and Enniskeane.

The owner has spent about €25,000 on it in recent times, reckons Clonakilty-based estate agent Martin Kelleher as he pins a €125,000 AMV to the 1,400sq ft home on an acre — which has had 50 walnut trees planted on it in recent times also.

Among the latest upgrades is an air heat exchanger, just fitted, at a cost of €6,500, and this should improve the BER by a few bands.!

The large flat-roof extension was re-done too, at a significant cost, and there’s also a solid fuel stove in one of the two living rooms, new fuseboard, electric gates, broadband, loft and wall insulation.

The setting is by woods, closer to Coppeen than to Enniskeane, and Cork city is a 40 minute spin away, but a world apart.

There are two adjacent reception rooms, one could be bed three, and the other has a stove big enough to heat most of the downstairs.

LOCATION: Coppeen, West Cork

PRICE: €125,000

SIZE: Sq m 130 (1,400 sq ft)

BEDROOMS: 2/3

BER RATING: E2

VERDICT: County living on a budget.