Starter home: Kenmare, Kerry €249,000

Sq m 157 (1,700 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 3

BER: D2

Best Feature: Setting

VIEWS over Kenmare Bay come gratis with the upgraded house called Rose Cottage, which is set three or four miles from the Kerry tourist town, at Killaha West — out the Glengarriff/Castletownbere direction.

And, while not quite gratis, the asking price on this four-bed home, with exterior stone wall features plus a sun room, has just had a pruning, down now to €249,00 from an earlier guide of €275,000.

It’s a one-off, for sale via agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy in Cork, who is acting for a receiver in PwC, and he says the bay and general water and mountain views are spectacular from its elevated site.

Rose Cottage is on a good, fenced-in site with parking for several cars and is quite two-faced — single storey on the approach and storey and a half/dormer on the other, all stone in front with peaky dormers, plus a feature arched window to the landing area.

There’s enough space on the carpeted landing to almost consider this as an extra room, and the main living area is linked to the open kitchen/dining space, and there’s also a utility.

There’s a ground floor main bathroom, and the en suite master bedroom is also at ground level: overhead one of the three other bedrooms is also en suite, and there’s a guest WC.

VERDICT: A one-off on a short drive from thriving Ring of Kerry tourism town Kenmare.