Fun, quirky mid-1800s Cork farmhouse on 3.5-7.5 acres anyone?

Tommy Barker on the many homely features of this mid-1800s Lissarda farmhouse. Pictures:  Niamh Whitty 

Ashmore House, Hornhill, Lissarda, Co Cork, a funky, fun, farmhouse on 3.5 or total of 7.5 acres and home to a window-dresser, and unusual livestock.

THERE’S been quite the knowing visual eye cast over the presentation of Ashmore House, a mid-1800s Co Cork farmhouse as it comes up for sale — its owner is a well-regarded window dresser (or, creative display artist as her formal title) with a major city centre department store.

Owner Geraldine Hanley has been here for 14 years, and Ashmore has provided a fun and funky farm base in a mid-Cork rural heartland for her family, as well as an introduction to the joys of rearing livestock.