Trade up to this modern and commanding home

BIG and brick-faced, the four-bed family home Kilcrenagh House is pitched at a trading-up market.

Located half a mile or so beyond and behind Rochestown College in Cork, the 1,800 sq ft detached house is on a rural site of half an acre.

On the market with Ted Healy of Cohalan Downing estate agents, it has a €560,000 price guide.

Built only a few years ago, its owners are set to move into Mount Oval village a couple of miles way.

This two-storey house is at upper Rochestown, where the setting is rural but there’s been a spread of large one-off houses in the hinterland in the last decade because of the relative proximity of Douglas and the city via the ring road network.

Solidly four-square, block-shaped and set into the midst of its half-acre site, this modern house has its upper windows poking into the roof as half-dormers, and there’s a slightly protruding porch entrance.

Internally, there a central hall, a lounge with open fireplace and wood floor, sitting room also with fireplace, separate dining room with a bay window overlooking the back garden, and the kitchen has pine units, with utility and guest WC off it.

The upper level has a main bathroom, four bedrooms, all double sized, and the largest at 18’ by 11’ has an en suite with shower.

The attic is floored, and the house has double glazing and oil heating.