If you don’t want red carpet treatment this is perfect

THE owners of 4, Monswood in Cork rolled out the red carpet when they decided on the finishing specification on this large family home. In fact, they rolled the carpet idea right out the door, and finished the place instead upstairs and down with wood floors.

Monswood is one of the up-market residential schemes around the Mount Oval/Garryduff/Clarke’s Hill in Rochestown, already one of the posher parts of Cork in which to live. Or should that be ‘reside?’

Auctioneer Alan Browne of Cahalane Skuse - captain of Cork’s victorious Munster Final hurling team last weekend - hurls out the “one of Cork’s most sought-after locations” description for the location, and narrows the setting down further then to a corner site in this development of large 2,500 sq ft detached homes. Guide price is €570,000.

He says this fine and well-kept family home, is fitted out with lots of extras. Wood floors feature in all four bedrooms, in the hall, living room, family room, dining room, sunroom and in the kitchen. And, again they feature in the main bathroom.

There’s a flow around the amount of space here, with circulation aided by copious amounts of double doors.

French doors link the 16’ by 13’ living room with the family room, another set go from the family room to the sun room, and the same type of doors connect the kitchen to the dining room.

Two of the reception rooms, at opposite sides of the house, have bay windows, and other ground floor rooms include guest WC and utility, with garden access.

Overhead, two of the four bedrooms (all doubles in size) have en suites with shower, and the main bathroom has bath and bidet.

No 4 has a good side garden, parking to the front with cobble lock drive, and has a detached 23’ by 13’ garage which adds to the rear garden privacy.

Built by Westbrook Housing, the completed scheme at Monswood dates from the late 1990s and has external finishes which need little maintenance.