Bantry farmhouse ideal for a lazy lifestyle

Absolute charm, old-world ambience, tasty upgrades and enhancements, and a tranquil setting — little wonder this Bantry area farmhouse and outbuildings go by a name as beguiling as Lazy Acres.

And, if you are the indolent type, you won’t have acres to mind: this stone-built farm house, plus barn conversion and good quality art/music studio/workroom is on ‘just’ 0.75 of an acre of lovely grounds with valley views, and which includes the low-stone ruins of an earlier cottage, all ringed by mature native trees.

Selling agent for Lazy Acres is Michéal Duggan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill in Skibbereen, who describes this dwelling about four miles from Bantry and 10 miles from Glengarriff as “traditional”: it’s all that and more, with unfitted kitchen with old pine units, rough-rendered whitewashed internal walls, some exposed stone and quality woodwork, and has a stove set into a traditional hearth, with exposed stone lintel, all backed up now by gas fired central heating, double glazing and a gable end sun room.