Dive into this seven-bedroom A-rated family home with outdoor pool on Waterford’s Copper Coast.
Address: Sea La Vie, Garrarus, Tramore, Co Waterford, X91 XR76
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Country Homes
Asking price: €1,250,000
Just a 500 metre walk to the beach at Garrarus is a future-proof home suited to multi-generational living.
Built on the site of a former three-bedroom bungalow the owner of this detached A2 Ber-rated, seven bedroom, seven-bathroom residence had spent years looking for the perfect location for their forever home.
My husband’s mother was from Tramore originally, she explains. “She went to the UK and married there. We’d always holidayed here. The two generations loved it so much that they all moved, lock, stock and barrel as a family group, she explains. We bought two houses next to each other in an estate and spotted the bungalow in 2013.”
They sold the estate homes and moved out to Garrus living in the property as they applied for planning to aggrandise it. They bought and moved in for a while before reimagine the site. “We wanted to build so that it looked like one home but separate inside.”
The bungalow came with an outdoor swimming pool, which they have refurbished. The pool house, which she describes as being “covered by a very large conservatory,” has become a veritable outdoor room. It’s a place to make a splash, get some exercise and where the couple breakfast in the morning, relax on the loungers and enjoy a coffee in the afternoon. The 8.5 metre long by 4.25metre heated pool has a natural salt chlorination system that is a more ecological approach and eliminates the harsh smell.
Set on 0.9 of an acre, almost an acre of grounds, the detached residence is sheltered from the elements by several landscaped areas of the garden.
The house is one of just six houses on the lane that leads down to Garrus beach. “The beach changes all the time. Often we’re the only ones down there, save for the ladies swimming,” she says.
Although it looks like one big house, the property comprises two residences, with separate metres and entrances, although they are connected and you can move from one to the other without having to go outside.
The property, which extends to 463 square metres, about E2,700 per square metre, includes a two-bedroom annex, complete with lounge, kitchen and utility, its own private access. Her parents-in-law lived here. Her father=in-law passed away five years ago but her mother-in-law.
For those with parents who are getting older but don’t need looking after it allows you to be proximate but not on top of each other. Living close to your mother-in-law is a very old tradition but the example here is a very modern take on the idea. ““We’ve always lived close to each other,” she explains and while on the phone to Extra.ie her in-law just served her up a bacon sandwich for lunch.
All of the ground floor is warmed by an air-to water operated underfloor heating. She says the A2 Ber rating is economical to run. “I wear shorts in the house and rarely have a cardigan in winter”. While their side of the property is balmy visitors have christened the mother-in-law’s space, “the Waterford Crystal furnace”, on account of the high temperatures she keeps it at.
It’s a lifestyle. We don’t have to leave. We have everything here.
Agents Sherry FitzGerald Country Homes is seeking E1.25million for the property.
