Walk the line with Sunday’s Well home

ARE the people of Cork so dependent on cars, parking and the familiar that they ignore the charms of what’s directly under their noses?.

Yes, seems to be the answer, if you look at what’s on offer at 36 Sunday’s Well Road.

For about the price of a decent suburban home, you can get something quite spectacular, a three-storey period semi-d, with over a half acre of gardens and river frontage.

And it is south-facing, with views over Fitzgerald Park, cricket, tennis and boat clubs and the sprawl of UCC’s wooded college campus, appropriately so as no 36 was once lived in by mathematician George Boole.

No 36, dating to 1830, was for sale in April with a €900,000 price guide, but was taken off the market in late summer.

Now, it is back again, with different agents and a price guide of €850,000 now quoted by Sheila O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald.

No 36 hasn’t changed hands for 34 years, and typically these Sunday’s Well homes stay in family hands through generations, but perhaps it is the modern obsession with the car that has seen this place unsold - so far.

It is in good overall condition and is packed with attractive period details to make a feature of, and is plenty big enough for a family of wide age spans: its top floor has only three bedrooms.

Location is opposite Buxton Hill, with entry through a discrete doorway in a stone wall to a flagstoned private courtyard.

The middle level has two large and linked grand reception rooms and a sun room off the hall, a rear room with barrel vaulted ceiling ideal as a play room and lower level with kitchen, dining and service rooms.