Unusual market arrival in Skibbereen farmhouse

Tooreen, Skibbereen, West Cork  €270,000

IT might have come all wintry outside in recent days, but there’s a blast of sunnier times inside this Skibbereen farmhouse, an unusual market arrival for a month like November: this is generally the sort of home that comes for sale with the daffodils, not with the holly wreaths.

Traditional enough looking from the exterior, there’s just enough different going on inside to give it a colourful lift and to banish grey clouds beyond. It’s immediately cheery, a cherished family home with select blasts of colour and good timbers – and will be even more so come spring, when the daffs come up in drifts by its welcoming sun-room/porch rear entrance.