Plenty of room to potter in garden of earthly delights

HOLLYVILE on Cork’s Glasheen Road has a lot going for it, with the list of positives topped by a half acre of south-facing gardens and a setting within a short walk of UCC and the Bon Secours hospital.

The 1900s detached house is up for sale with a €550,000 price guide quoted by Brendan Quinlan of Hamilton Osborne King. This price reflects recent sales in the area, where, for example, Woodwards got about €500,000 for a St Clare’s Avenue home near the Bon Secours, and closer to €600,000 for a place with large corner site and extension potential at the junction on the same avenue with Magazine Road.

Hollyville has had a 16’ by 12’ sun room added on in the last few years, with tiled roof and large overhead Velux window, and this room has swelled the ground floor accommodation, with access to it from the living room, and it is open plan to the kitchen.