Carrig Cottage, on the romantically-named Cuckoo Lane, is a 1930s detached house that is set on about three quarters of an acre a mile and a half outside the village of Rathnew in Co Wicklow.
The owner, a painter of “chocolate-box style still life”, says the extensive gardens are an expression of her husband’s love for her. They include specimen plants and trees, such as Italian Alders, apple trees and wisteria on a south-facing gable wall.
Married for 53 years, the couple moved to Wicklow from west Cork to be near the city and fell in love with the property, buying it in the early 1980s.
They’ve refurbished it adding a glass-box extension that houses a sunroom on the ground floor and an artist’s studio upstairs. These rooms face east but enjoy light on three sides. From the upstairs studio you can see Wicklow Bay.
The house now measures 126sq m (1,367sq ft) and is for sale at €325,000 through Greystones-based O'Gorman Properties.
The layout is cottage-style. The front door opens directly into a study. Off it is one of the house’s three bedrooms.
A door from the study leads into the living room which has a bay window and a gas stove and interconnects with the terracotta-tiled country kitchen with stained wood beams.
It has white units, a brick-faced island and laminate countertops.
Sunroom
From the kitchen a French door opens to a south-facing patio which has a pergola covered with orange-peel clematis.
A door off the living room takes you down a hall to where the property’s other two bedrooms are. The family bathroom at the end of the hall has an oval bath. The separate toilet is beside it.
Also off the hall is the sunroom. A staircase takes you up to the studio which has sliding double doors leading out to a balcony.
Dublin is about an hour away by car. There is site potential, subject to planning, to the side of the house.
