IT’S one of the most subtle and intelligent renovations of a railway cottage you’ll find and this Mourneabbey, Mallow, property is also in showhouse condition.
Offering a surprising 2,000 plus square feet of space, it’s not a run-of-the-mill house, but instead, offers above averageaccommodation at the guide of €395,000.
Abbey View Lodge is on the market with John Singleton of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan, who sold the old cottage initially.
The purchasers, then a young married couple, are now the proud parents of two and are moving into Mallow for convenience to work and school, so their pride and joy is reluctantly up for sale.
Not too far from Rathduff and a fast commute to Cork city on good roads, this house is a great starter home for a couple, a downsizing home, (even though it’s very big, it’s still manageable), or a trading-up house for an older family.
Set in a quiet cul-de-sac, with an old church across the way and a couple of other railway cottages for company, Abbey View is not an isolated country cottage.
In fact, it’s just off the main road and is only a walk to the nearest pub, with Mallow a quick zip up the road.
It’s quite impressive internally: entrance is at a central point of the house, where old meets new and leads through to a huge living dining and sun room space.
This sunny bright room faces on to the garden, via the sun room, has a walnut kitchen at one end, a huge utility to the side with bathroom and a good, rectangular dining area.
Then, there’s a cosy sitting room of 15’ by 13’ with windows on two sides and a good, sandstone fireplace.
There are two bedrooms, one of which is en-suite, at ground floor level, in what would once have been the entire cottage, so room sizes are good and the quality of finish on the renovation is excellent. Up the main staircase, there are three more bedrooms, including an en-suite master.
Like the rest of the house the finish is superb and this house is a move-in proposition as it stands.
Outdoors, it’s the same with a long garden, half of which is given over as a child’s playground, and the remainder, near the house has apatio area, a fountain, garden shed and a number of other features.
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, August 21, 2010
