Looks deceive as this home packs a lot of space inside

ITS outside belies the inside. The dormer-style house Glendubh, on Cork’s Model Farm Road is bigger, and better, than its front facade lets on.

Built 11 years ago and architect designed with what is now a fairly standard dormer appearance, the interior of this grandly finished five-bed family home has over 2,600 sq ft of very well-kitted out space, with lots of extra trimmings.

It is just on the market, on a private quarter acre site, with Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing, who quotes a €630,000 price guide, based on the size, location, inherent quality and on the value of new homes in the area on smaller sites.

Money was lavished here from the outset, and you see it as soon as you get past the stained glass door panels and mahogany door and into the entrance hall.

Mahogany abounds here, on the floor, on the stairs, and the wall along the side of the stairwell is finished with rich hued mahogany as well, in country manor house style.

Glendubh has three reception rooms, a dining room to the right of the hall through double doors, a large sitting room well off to the left of the hall, and there’s a fine spacious family room behind the dining room, with sliding doors overlooking a south-facing patio and walled in private garden.

Both the lounge and the family room have fireplaces, marble for the more formal room, cast iron in the more relaxed space, and all the rooms and the hall itself have quite elaborate corniced plasterwork, while the hall has a tough-lasting anaglypta finish below its dado rail.

All of the main reception rooms continue the mahogany floor theme, and the pine kitchen is a walk-through room overlooking the back garden, with access to both the family room and back to the hall.

Other ground floor rooms include a cloakroom, and a rear hall beyond the kitchen leads to a small study/den, bathroom with shower and utility.

Upstairs, there’s a generous landing around the stairwell, the main bathroom has a jacuzzi corner bath, the master bedrooms down a private corridor has a dressing room/gym/store, en suite shower room and one end of the bedroom has lots of built-in storage with dressing table.

All of the other four bedrooms have built ins, and just about all of them qualify in size terms as doubles: the smallest of the bunch has a sloped ceiling giving a cosy feel, and has an exposed beam in the corner as decorative effect.

Outside, the gardens are excellent, well-stocked from nearby Nangles nurseries, there’s a cobble lock drive to the front and sides, the back is walled in and private, has sunny patio space and a large lawn, mature shrubs and there’s a discretely lit pond in a corner.