This will take you back to your Balinese honeymoon.

The School House, in Ballinlough, Leap, has hit the market at €325,000, with a carefully curated exotic garden waiting to whisk you away on a zen journey beyond the front door.

The four-bedroom bungalow, built in the 1970s as a modern school, has been carefully renovated and modified into a comfortable and spacious home complete with PVC double glazed windows and doors, oil-fired central heating, and a modern multi-fuel stove.

While the interior is spacious and modern, the biggest surprise lies outside in 1.25 acres of exceptional landscaped gardens, which boast a wooden platform for meditation, a leafy lily pond, and a shaded seating area surrounded on all sides by lush greenery.

We can already taste the green tea.

“The gardens are magnificent, combining a mix of garden influences including Asian, Japanese, woodland, rockeries, orchard, vegetable growing areas, various private patio areas, and lawns,” says Con O’Neill of Sherry Fitzgerald.

“The garden includes a myriad of native and other specimen trees and shrubs that are integrated to create a home that is full of charm and tranquility.”

A stone’s throw from Ballinlough Lake and convenient to Leap, Skibbereen and the many coastal villages in this area of West Cork, this is a home for the person keen to escape it all.

It’s a gardening enthusiast’s dream too – there is a south-facing conservatory/orangery, a garage, potting shed, and a selection of other storage areas, all waiting to be filled with equipment and new specimens.

Ready to find out more? Viewings are strictly by appointment with Sherry FitzGerald Clonakilty on 023 8833995.