A spacious home in the suburbs with its eye on local government

SOLID and sound, with a spacious interior and a sweet back garden and views of Cork’s County Hall to the back craning over the trees - just some of the attributes of Glanarn, a family home up for sale on the city end of the Model Farm Road.

One of the first dozen attractive and varied homes along the road from Dennehy’s Cross and directly across the way from the copper domed church, Glanarn is a four-bed detached house of character.

It has attractive original early 1900s features such as high ceilings, some cornicing, brass door handles, serving hatch to the kitchen - and even an oil-fired Aga in the kitchen with clothes drying rack overhead.

The selling agents CB Hamilton Osborne King give this superbly conveniently located home house a €450,000 price guide, and expect very strong viewing interest as it hit the market with a scarcity of supply of good trading up homes in the western suburbs.

The house has a large patio about 35’ wide by 20’ deep across the back of the property, with steps down to a very mature and well-kept back garden.

All of the neighbouring properties have similarly attractive gardens, and the large garden of another house runs behind several, so privacy is a bonus: about the only thing overlooking this leafy enclave is County Hall, way off in the distance, with its top floors visible from Glanarn over the top of a spreading Cordyline palm tree.

Planting to the front of Glanarn is limited to hedging, shrubs and some flowers: most space is given over to tarmac car parking for a growing family’s fleet needs, and there is a garage attached to the house itself to the eastern side with immediate conversion potential.

Inside, Glanarn has an extra large and bright hallway, almost room sized, and off to the left are interconnecting reception rooms running from front to back, a full 32’ deep by 13’ wide. There’s a deep bay window, with original sash frames in excellent condition, plus secondary glazing inside, and to the back of this long rom is a sliding PVC patio door, and a serving hatch to the kitchen.

The kitchen is a lovely cosy room, with oil fired Aga, older style built-ins, two windows overlooking the back garden and garden access, while a utility room beyond opens to the garage, suitable for storage, or conversion to granny flat, teenagers’ den or family room.

All four first floor bedrooms have wash basins - each a different colour- and three are good sized doubles, and even the fourth is larger than you’ll find in most new homes. The main bedroom has a bay window and a double set of fitted wardrobes, while the main bathroom has a bath with raised tiled surround, shower and hot-press.