Starting at €685,000 Foxhollow house as versatile as it is clever

Future-proofing and inviting guests is easy with a layout like this Blarney home

Foxhollow House, Station Road, Blarney, Co. Cork

Blarney, Co Cork
€685,000
Size	251sq m (2,702sq ft)
Bedrooms	5
Bathrooms	4
BER	B3

Coming up on 20 years old, this detached five-bed Blarney home has a very modern and clever layout.

Foxhollow House’s modern traits include a B3 energy rating with solar panels, and underfloor heating on ground and first floors.

The cleverness is in the versatile layout: This large home on Blarney’s Station Rd has two good-sized front rooms with big bay windows. One of these is accessed from a side entrance, creating a self- contained unit featuring a bedroom/study and a bathroom and utility room, giving multi-generational living or guest-suite options. But it could easily be adapted to access from the main hall as well.

Built in 2007, the first and current owners are downsizing — but they’ve added attractive features in living areas, including decorative panelling, built-in shelves, recessed lighting, and cornicing. Two of the four bedrooms upstairs have en-suite bathrooms. The back garden and patio are west-facing, so that setting sun can be the extra ‘guest’ at al-fresco dinners or drinks. You’re just a stroll from Blarney Village with a good range of shops, cafés, pubs, and restaurants — and Blarney Castle and Blarney Woollen Mills, says Sherry FitzGerald’s Tirza Hourihane.

And Cork city and Cork airport are about a 20-minute drive from this €685k house.

VERDICT: A versatile layout makes it easy to think outside the box at Foxhollow House.