EVERY owner to date has put their own stamp and investment on this Clashanure, Ovens home, which now poses the question: what’s left for the next occupants to do?
She put in a new kitchen from Celtic Kitchens; all new bathrooms; a secret pantry by reordering an open plan kitchen layout; put in handy bifold doors to the patio, added a new/upgraded large utility room with even a bespoke pet washing shower/bath, and upgraded flooring and décor.
Then, she also built a large detached garage to a A-rate insulation standard, adding about another 250 sq ft to the 3,100 sq ft main property, done to a high standard with expensive cedarwood double doors made to order, and linked it back to the sizeable main house via a pergola over a paved parking area.
But, despite buying only as recently as 2019, maybe there’s more energy in the tank: she’s on the lookout for a place with acres of ground, hence the arrival of this spotless order five+ bedroomed home on its one acre mature, screened grounds on the west of city market.
It’s likely Ms Healy will some of the same faces, both bidders and viewers back here now, as the location is strong, ideal for golfers or home owners who if not golfers themselves will have guests or family members keen to play there, or be entertained there, while just to the north is Farran Country Park, National Rowing Centre, and water and wooded amenities plus Coachford village’s services too.
An electric gate opens to this Clashanure home, and brick apron drive, with natural stone on the new garage sourced as a match for that on the house’s two front wings. And, although it’s essentially a bungalow with all of its space handily on the one level, the layout once inside is unpredictable, with its range/choice of bedrooms at opposite parts, to the left off the hall, with up to four or even five here and with two more to the back, past the large, lofted ceilinged kitchen/living/dining rooms with bifold doors to the patio.
Hailing from the other side of Ovens, by Kilcrea Abbey, the vendor and extended family are animal lovers and she’s currently got two fussy cats, one of them recently ‘with litter’ of five kittens, two German Shepherds, two Tibetan terriers and a beagle.
That mix in most family homes might hint at pet odours, but here, thankfully, not a trace: the glorious practicality of a dog shower, and plentiful applications of Head & Scruff shampoo, surely?
Apart from the physically diverse siting of the bedrooms, fore and aft in the very deep, extended home, there’s also optional use of several if new occupants don’t need all seven available, or six or five: here. Four are in regular use, and the others can be variously used as a play room, home study/office, yoga, or gym, while the garage has as many other uses too.
In addition, there are two oak floored reception/family rooms separate to the kitchen/living dining to the front right, one large (about 24’ by 14’) and they connect via double doors, with a stove in a stone chimney breast in the larger of the two.
A second Stovax stove features in the voluminous kitchen/diner, where the presence of a laundry/hidden pantry behind what ostensibly looks like kitchen cabinet doors will delight many, as will the boot room across the way with its pet bath and access to a sheltered courtyard by a gable end with hidden shed. A stand-out feature in the lofty ‘great room/ kitchen/diner main living space is the series of hefty pitch pine beams (with some retained bark) the lofty vaulted ceiling space, sourced by previous owners when they put their own mark and extension on this now-spacious home.
The pine was apparently sourced locally, while appropriately this house and some of its Clashanure neighbours are all backed by quite recently planted Farran forestry. Thus, when further decades roll around, future owners can harvest locally grown timber on the doorstep. for their own domestic projects.
