Saturday, January 07, 2012
These visually engaging homes have a Kinsale view. Tommy Barker reports
THERE’S only a dozen houses here in Kinsale’s Admiral’s Walk, in two runs of terraces, and they’re both niche and popular.
The large townhouses’ design is clever, and visually engaging, with sections stepped forward and back with some hung-slate sections and balconies to break up the run of joined-up facades.
Located up above the entrance to Kinsale harbour, on the Cork side, the three-storey No 12 is, handily, end of terrace, with both a side yard and a back garden, and has four en suite bedrooms, one on the top floor, the other three are in the mid-level, and the master bed to the back on the middle level has views down towards Kinsale town from its raised balcony, looking over and past its back garden.
The ground level is open and bright, with a 18’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room to the front, and an 18’ by 17’ living room behind, with wide bay window and doors to the back garden. There’s also a study, plus utility and a fifth WC.
Pleasant-looking Admiral’s Walk was built by the well-regarded John Buckley, and the front gardens are more or less open and communal, with reserved storage areas. No 12’s rear gardens are accessed via the study, or the living room, opening to vies of the yacht club, for wanna-be admirals.
According to selling agent Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald, No 12’s interior "is second-to-none with the use of very attractive materials to include solid hard wood flooring, quality carpeting, quality fitted kitchen with granite worktops and natural yet warm tones throughout".
VERDICT: There’s a nice floor plan to these well-detailed Kinsale townhouses, now selling for €375,000 or so.
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