Glorious garden and chic interior

IT is the back garden and the interior rooms that will sell 53 Meadow Park Avenue — that’s why the estate agent’s brochure concentrates its images on these.

The house, under offer at its €235,000 asking price with Noelle Morrison auctioneers, is in Cork’s Ballyvolane, in a quiet park beyond the Fox and Hounds bar, just over two miles from the city centre.

From the front, it appears to be a standard three-bed semi (but with a clever layout) with a front drive and garden sloping down from the road, but get around the back and the bounteous greenery of the back garden is a revelation.