Big house carries €1.5m price tag

Stunning farm and period property at Warrensgrove is being sold in one lot.

Prime period properties are rare enough in the Lee Valley — most have been snapped up, are passed through the family line, or have been demolished in favour of smaller holdings.

In the case of Warrensgrove at Crookstown, Co Cork, the original house was burnt down, along with a necklace of similar properties in the area. Since the twenties, the residential element of the Warrensgrove estate shifted emphasis to the courtyard of building which were built across the way, in a subtle, neo-Tudor style.