Suburban look to Landsborough

By Tommy Barker

Move on a decade and more, and literally a thousand and more new homes have made a suburb out of the setting.

Landsborough was built by Bride ViewHomes and met a market niche for families keen to trade up to large detached homes: it still fills that niche, and trading up interest in no 1 is going to be significant.

The 2,000 sq ft dormer bungalow has a €395,000-plus guide price with Nicola Murray, who joins Dennis Guerin in the residential side of the Frank V Murphy and Co agency in Cork city, and is the first house in on the right hand side of the development beyond Garryduff, Mount Oval Village and Foxwood.

The roads around have gotten busier in recent years as a consequence, and a new one-way route through Mount Oval Village from Sli Carrig Donn (the last uphill gasp of the ring road network) has the prospect of easier access to this part of Rochestown when coming from town: options for those looking to get to Douglas and the city from Landsborough include busy Clarke's Hill and Maryborough Hill, with a slip road to the ring road from Maryborough Hill.

This house, no 1, is inside the pillar entrance gates on a corner site, and has four bedrooms, one at ground level and three overhead, one of which is en suite. Reception rooms include a lounge/dining room, with a white marble fireplace and oak floor in the living/lounge area and an arch to the dining area which has a matching oak floor and double doors to the back garden/patio: the additional family room also has garden access, via sliding doors.

There's a kitchen/breakfast room with oak units and the sale includes a number of brand name built in appliances. Other rooms include a utility and guest bathroom near the ground floor bedrooms.

The exterior is largely maintenance free with a red brick front facade to match the roof tiles, with dash on other walls, with PVC double glazing and gas heating. Overall condition is very good, according to the selling agents, and the site is walled with cobble front drive.