A chocolate box pretty schoolhouse with period charm, just a few kilometres outside the thriving market town of Kilcullen.
Address: The Schoolmasters House, Brannockstown, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, W91F3C9
Asking price: €689,950
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald McDermot
Most home buyers are drawn to some of the period property’s charm. But for many, the creature comforts of a more contemporary-built home outweigh the aesthetic pleasure of living in a property with more personality.
The Schoolmaster’s House, about kilometres east of Kilcullen in Co Kildare, offers both. Now boasts a C3 Ber rating the detached, three-bedroom, two-bathroom has been smartly upgraded and contemporarised.
This is chocolate box pretty, both outside and in. The house is set back from the road behind timber gates.
The yellow brick-fronted building has its window surrounds picked out in contrasting red brick. There are discreet little touches throughout. The soft sage green of the gates is carried onto the porch and the front door.
This opens into a hall floored in a checkerboard pattern of black and white tiles. The internal side of the door has been painted a different colour from the exterior.
From the hall, it is a fashionable butter yellow that really pops against the floor. This colour matches the gate piers outside.
The sitting room and formal dining room are to the right, and a dual aspect space.
Both are relaxed, rather than formal. The dining area overlooks the garden, while the sitting room features easy seating all set around a cast-iron surround open hearth.
There are honey-coloured polished timber floors underfoot.
Across the hall is the kitchen, and through a brick arch is the breakfast room. The kitchen units are painted a racing green, and it has a timber-beamed sloping ceiling and a terracotta-tiled floor.
There is another open hearth in the breakfast room, similar to that in the living room.
This room opens out to the back garden, where there is a detached shed and an enormous but private green space, big enough to kick a ball around.
Upstairs, there are three bedrooms, all with painted offwhite timber floors, a Scandinavian touch. Two of these are good doubles.
The principal is ensuite. The third is furnished as a single bedroom cum office.
The property extends to about 118 square metres, and there is scope to build out to the side or back, subject to planning.
Agent Sherry FitzGerald McDermot is seeking €689,950 for the property.
