Snap up this riverside period home

Tommy Barker

Modern suburban homes in good estates are now valued over the E1 million mark but a period city home with half an acre of riverside gardens can still be picked up for less than this.

The three-storey semi-detached Sunday's Well Road home hit this year's spring market with a guide of close to E900,000 but still hasn't found takers, says Brian Olden of Lisneys.

Once lived in by George Boole, the UCC mathematics professor of Boolean geometry fame, it is appropriate that it has full south-facing views of UCC's campus, the Boole Library and the Glucksman art gallery.

Hoving into view too are FitzGerald Park, the City Museum, adn Sunday's Well tennis and boating club and the Mardyke, UCC, the Mercy and Bon Secours hospitals and the city centre are an easy walk away, which softens the fact that there is only off-street car parking.

Dating to the 1830s, the home, reached via a private courtyard opposite the foot of Buxton Hill, is on a rocky escarpment, with terraced gardens and lawns between it and the River Lee.

There's space for a tennis court in the lower gardens, and the vendors had canoes at the end of the garden for riverside fun.

There's rich architectural detailing, and three bedrooms at the top level with options for more.