Lissarda Manor on three acres could be a lucky 13 for someone

“There’s huge value for money here,” says Sam Kingston of Casey and Kingston, appointed selling agent for the 10,000 sq ft, expensively-built Lissarda Manor guest house on the main Cork-Macroom/Killarney Road.

The auctioneer guides the 13-bedroom building on three landscaped acres at €850,000, and says that’s just a fraction of the build cost.

The complex, 20 miles west of Cork city at a spot known locally in Macroom as the Four Mile Bridge, has high visibility to the N22. It was completed in 2010, and has sought to attract short, medium and long-stay guests as well as running courses and sessions in alternative therapies, yoga etc. It gets trade from the tourism traffic along the Kerry route, as well as angling and Lee Valley amenities visitors, running short residential alternative medicine courses, and it has scope as a retirement/convalescent home.

Eleven of the guest bedrooms are en suite, and the entire building is in immaculate order and highly specified with all fire certs, alarms, cameras, central vac, with quality flooring and finishes, etc. There are four ground floor bedrooms, four/five more at first floor level and two more with en suites at the top level.

In addition, there’s a two-bed owner/manager’s apartment, a large 40’ by 20’ bright basement main room, with external access only and with rear offices, service rooms etc.

Main living areas include a large hall with sweeping cantilevered staircase, a 30’ by 20’ main lounge, and a gable end, full-height sun-room the size of a townhouse. External finishes include stone and render, and there’s a raised balcony, decking and garden seating areas amid recent beech planting.

Plans were drawn up for swimming pool wing, large garage etc but were not pursued. It’s on three landscaped acres, with road frontage to the N22. “For anyone with a business plan, there’s tremendous scope at this purchase price,” notes Mr Kingston.

* Details: Casey and Kingston, 021-4271127