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.

The patio and kitchen overlooks a green country-like spread with a plum tree, apple trees, gooseberry bushes, wild roses, honeysuckle flowering mimosa and more.

A patio door connects the garden oasis to the kitchen/dining room, a smart 16’ wide room with Chinese slate floor, built-ins and a handy storage space under the stairs.

The siting of the staircase is the key to space it is midships in the house, with the ‘front’ door to the side: this means that the front room goes the full width of the house, measuring almost 16’ by 12’, and the similar-sized master bedroom overlooks the back garden.

The decor is smart, crisply painted, with good quality slate, tile and wood floors downstairs and pale carpets upstairs.

The vendor has an artistic eye and has kept standards high: it needs nothing but to move in.

There are new windows, gas heating, a spotless bathroom, wiring is in place for an alarm, a garden store, and the floored attic has a pull-down staircase.

Noelle Morrison reports strong interest and says the area is very popular. Meanwhile, Irish and European has ‘sale agreed’ on a neighbouring home for €246,00, and have a newer home at 7 Meadow Park Lawn on offer at €270,000.