Harbour view home with detached studio apartment

YOU can get your sea legs at Seaways, an adaptable family home overlooking Cork’s inner harbour at Monkstown.

The roadside and water-facing property dates back 150 years, but looks newer, thanks to several tranches of expenditure and upgrades.

Giving this four-bed home its adaptability for any new users is the recently built detached garage, with overhead studio apartment with porthole window and external stairs access.

It may allow a new owner to work from home or accommodate a family member. The garage gives lots of storage options: dinghy building project for 2006, anyone?

Location is on the Strand Road, west of the pier and slipway in Monkstown’s Sand Quay, and the roadway is popular with walkers and bird watchers.

The garage apartment brings the accommodation to about the 1,800 sq ft level, and the price guide quoted by TJ Cronin of Irish and European is €550,000.

“It marries its old world charm with all its modern day conveniences,” says its selling agent.

The property has been on the market since the week running up to Christmas.

Rooms include a large (23’ by 13’) family room off the hall, with a marble fireplace and with kitchen access, lounge with fireplace, kitchen with painted built-ins and access to a compact rear yard, utility room, and guest WC.

Overhead are four bedrooms, with built ins, and the master bedroom has a quality ensuite bathroom with jacuzzi bath, shower and bidet, while there are sliding roods to a veranda on the front wall of this bedroom. There’s also veranda access off the landing.

Seaways has mains services, off-street parking, and a pleasant front garden, but no back garden as there’s an access lane running behind this stretch of homes, serving several dwellings set back into the wooded slopes behind.