Perfect tee for moving up in East Cork

Midleton, Cork €450,000

There’s a golf course next door, and a tennis court on the private 1.3 acre grounds, at Ashleigh Villa, a five-bed ‘executive home’ with richly decorated interior, built on the edge of East Cork’s Midleton, at Gortacrue.

Dating to the 1980s, and fresh, bright and very luxuriously finished out inside, it’s by the 9th and 10th holes of the East Cork Golf Club, as well as the driving range.

About 3km from the town and the railway station, Ashleigh Villa has sweeping rural vistas and lovely landscaped grounds, enthuses selling agent Helen Kearney of CCM Property Services, who guides the 2,200 sq ft detached home at €450,000 and says it’s extremely well laid out, and extremely comfortable. There’s an immediate appeal to families into games, and golf enthusiasts, and there’s a 700 sq ft double garage, which may have potential as home office or other higher end conversion.

Features include above-standard large fireplaces, with a Le Droff style one in the main hall/central vestibule, with several key rooms off via arches and/or double doors.

There are two steps up to the bedrooms wing, where all five bedrooms have built-ins, with one en suite, and the family bathroom has a shower and Jacuzzi bath.

The 2,250 sq ft size allows good living space also, with great linked drawing room and formal dining room for entertaining, with a mellow family room with brick hearth and heavy timber ceiling beams for an olde worlde feel. The kitchen has a similar decorative warmth, with a Stanley range.

VERDICT: Bungalow is too modest a description for the work and money lavished on the interior, while the overall size, site and location package is also pretty appealing for those on the move in East Cork.