Trading Up: Ardfield, West Cork, €295,000

Right on the Wild Atlantic Way 15 minutes west of Clonakilty, and close enough to see and hear the sea, is this renovated and upgraded coastal home of character, at a spot called Ganniv Mór near Ardfield and Rathbarry villages.

Just off the road between the Red Strand and Galley Head lighthouse, and quite close to another house of similar vintage and farm buildings, it’s a two-storey house extended and restored with sympathy for its origins, and also given added comforts and interior style by its vendors.

Thanks to a 250 sq ft (25’ by 10’) lean-to conservatory in front, there’s now about 1,800 sq ft in all, and it has two doors linking back into the open-plan 25’ by 15’ kitchen/dining room too, next to a gable end living room.

There’s one ground-floor bedroom, in a return annex with a further bedroom directly overhead where one of the two other bedrooms is en suite.

Selling agents are Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill, who guide it at €295,000, and who recently sold a do-er up bungalow, on six acres right by the Red Stand, for close to its €320,000 asking price.

This offer’s in walk-in condition, with hardwood glazing and timber floors, pitched conservatory rising to the front eaves and thus warming much of the front of the house, while there’s a relatively compact garden.

VERDICT: Coastal but not remote, it’s as equally suited to full or part-time occupation, or retirement to the sea.

Size: 168sq m (1,810 sq ft)

Bathrooms: 3

Bedrooms: 4

BER: C3