Inventive name for house on private mature grounds

NAMED from an amalgam of children's names, Arbarchel is a fine detached family home on Cork's highly sought-after Rochestown Road.

The c2,000 sq ft property, just before the once-more extended Rochestown Park Hotel, is a couple of minutes stroll to Douglas village, dates to the late 1980s, and is on private and now very mature grounds.

Built by O'Flynn Construction, it is a house that was equipped with extras at the time, in a prime site, and "is absolutely in spotless condition inside and out," says Jarlath Boyd of Hamilton Osborne King auctioneers.

He seeks over €750,000 for Arbarchel, which has good front garden parking for several cars, and side access to the smart and secure rear garden.

Accommodation within includes L-shaped hall with generous stairs, with a sitting room off via double doors, there's a dining room with patio doors, and a family room. There's an ORM kitchen, a breakfast area with fireplace, separate breakfast bar, and a guest WC.

Overhead are four bedrooms, one en suite bathroom, and main bathroom. Heating is by oil, and windows are doubled glazed hardwood. Gardens are well-planted and tended, with very high rear hedges for utmost privacy, while the front facade, a mix of brick and white render, is softened by a trimmed ivy.

The Rochestown Road is well placed for commuters to Cork city, with bus links and the nearby South Link Road all as travel options, while the area also has two of the largest shopping centres in the suburbs and is within an easy drive of the new Mahon Point shops.

Prestigious house sales in the vicinity have ranged from €2 to €4 million, and Arbarchel was one of the early houses in the 1980s to commence the march of development out of Douglas towards Rochestown and Passage West.

It needs little or no work: any further spending will be as a result of a new owner's discretion.