Cottage is Christmas card cute
The wee, semi-detached cottage done up with a stylish twist, was built to serve the old Muskerry light rail line. Location is at Healy's Bridge, on the River Shournagh just upriver of where this small tributary enters the River Lee by the Angler's Rest bar, five miles up from Cork city centre.
The bridge-side and waterfront setting is postcard pretty, or even Christmas card cute, and the 19th century cottage property comes with a small stretch of river frontage and fishing rights to half of this.
Woodside is about 160 years old, and has been bought and sold a few times in the last 15 years.
Improved each step along the road of changed ownership, it still has the charm bestowed by its brick and stone exterior, Victorian gables, slate roof, restored sash windows and metal bay window canopy.
With a €300,000 price guide quoted by Con Nagle of Global Properties, this two- to three-bedroomed extended cottage with about 1,000 sq ft of space will have a niche buyer, someone who wants an individual home of character and a good bit of internal style as well.
The adjoining cottage, also in smart order, sold last year with Tim Sullivan auctioneers for €323,000, and was a bit larger with a considerably larger site.
This place now up for sale has lots of decking outside, ideal for parties, and a space heater would make it usable all year round. The smaller site, running up to the bridge, might suit someone who isn't keen on gardening and wants little maintenance.
Woodside has an entrance porch under a sloping slate roof, a good-sized lounge with French oak floor and Victorian fireplace, and double doors to a dining area.
The kitchen/dining area has a matching white oak floor and painted maple kitchen units with Junkers wood worktop, spotlighting, fireplace and French doors to the riverside decked garden.
The ground floor has a bedroom, a sun room/optional third bedroom with teak double doors to the deck and a good bathroom with Grohe power shower, and the compact attic upstairs has a master bedroom. There's off-road parking, oil heating, a garden shed, an ISDN line, and the standard of decor is high.
