Carrigaline house has hidden depths
New to market in this settled location out towards Fountainstown, two miles south of Carrigaline, is this older era detached bungalow, which has in the same family’s hands since 1980, but constantly upgraded since, and it hs been extended a couple of times too along the way.
It’s not an insult to say of it that it grows on you, on viewings, both literally and metaphorically: there’s a lot more house here than you’d be inclined to guess from the front facade and, indeed, most of the living is done here to the rear, in a series of four interconnected rooms, ranging from a smart kitchen to adjacent den, to breakfast room, and on out back to a calming conservatory with vaulted ceilings and terrace views.
Set on about half an acre, all well-planted and shrubbed, it backs up to farm fields, currently being set with potatoes in deep, rich-tilth ridges, visible over the rear boundary and within the hedges are raised beds, held back with serried rows of vertical-set railway sleepers.
Those many, many sleepers (it seems like half the old Croshaven rail line’s serried sleepers might have fetched up here!) help to define a large, sun-soaked terrace, done out in sandstone paving and some decking – overlooked by a recent bedroom wing to one side, and by the sun-room on the other.
It’s simply a sheltered sun-trap, evidenced by the several defined outdoor seating sections. Cleverly, too, a large section of mirror mounted on a blank section of wall and now framed by climbing plants, acts as an eye-catching/puzzling trompe l‘oeil – a clever touch.
Internally, the sun room links back to a TV/evening room, there’s a good modern kitchen with Amtico flooring and painted solid timber units which are marble topped, then there’s a breakfast area, plus, to the front of this L-shaped house is a formal, split-level 30’ by 13’ main living room, with corner window and white marble fireplace.
Then, down the far end, past the splayed-entrance and chequered black and white tiled hall, are up to five bedrooms, two with en suites.
All bathrooms have been quite recently upgraded, retiled and are fresh and contemporary in look. The master bedroom is private at the far extreme and has its own bathroom with large shower, his and hers sinks, and marble floor and wall tiles.
There’s also a dressing room, with mirrored doors, and there’s access close-by to the terrace/patio. Selling agent for this French Furze retreat (it doesn’t have a particular name) is Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing, and he guides at €530,000, noting there’s quite an interest right now in upper-end homes in the greater Crosshaven area in particular.
The house is one of two built by a speculative builder in a similar fashion, and has acquired its own discrete, well-heeled and artfully decorated personality in the current owners’ decades here.
It just misses out on harbour views, but you know there’s water out there to be enjoyed, either at beaches like Fountainstown and Myrtleville, and boating to be savoured and experienced at Crosshaven, It’s downsizing time for the vendors, a purchase and doer-upper opportunity has come along in Crosshaven, so its anchors aweigh at French Furze.
: Well worth viewing
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