{"id":194960,"date":"2025-11-22T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:12:32","slug":"old-schoolhouse-in-cork-promises-space-character-and-a-chance-for-a-restoration-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194960\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Schoolhouse in Cork promises space, character, and a chance for a restoration project"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Old Schoolhouse, a partially renovated property less than 10km from the East Cork town of Midleton, is the kind of project tailor-made for TV series like The Great House Revival or Build Your Own Home.\n <\/p>\n

Dating to 1847, it originally consisted of two large halls or classrooms, bookended by small entrance lobbies.<\/p>\n

Primary school kids entered at one end, and older children at the other. A central supporting wall housed a large, shared fireplace, and in the winter months, children were expected to bring a lump of coal each day to stoke the fire.<\/p>\n

\"HarrisonHarrison Gardner, and right, exterior of the home he shares with his wife Erin McClure and their two daughters. <\/p>\n

In the 1990s, it was acquired as a derelict building and renovated by the current owners, who lived there happily before turning it into a rental in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n

The dramatic open-plan living space, with vaulted ceiling and south-facing Velux windows, floods the main room with natural light.<\/p>\n

\"PartiallyPartially renovated, more to do\"\"<\/p>\n

French doors lead to the front garden, which is enclosed by mature trees.<\/p>\n

The owners\u2019 favourite features were the peaceful setting, plentiful natural light, vaulted main living area, and access to the river at the bottom of the garden.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the house was vacated and renovated again, with a new boiler, electrics, and bathroom, but due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the house fell into disrepair as its owners were now living overseas.<\/p>\n

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Up for sale with Kyle Kennedy of Kennedy Estate Agents, he says buyers will be able to avail themselves of the vacant property grant, worth up to \u20ac50,000.<\/p>\n

Mr Kennedy, who is guiding at \u20ac275,000, believes it will appeal to people \u201cliving in housing estates in Midleton, looking for a good deal more space and an opportunity to do something truly original with this very historic property.”<\/p>\n

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The Old Schoolhouse is a 10-minute drive from Midleton town, and Lisgoold village is 1km away.<\/p>\n

\n VERDICT: An exciting prospect for a buyer keen on a project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Old Schoolhouse, a partially renovated property less than 10km from the East Cork town of Midleton, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,433,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-194960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-house-prices-mortgages-estate-agents-cork-munster","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115595415552835898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}