Lynbrook home has the space for growing family

FED up of driving in and out of town, acting the chauffeur to growing or grown-up children?

A Cork western suburban home within a few minutes strike of UCC, two hospitals, the Wilton Shopping Centre and more, offers relief to those who favour options like walking, cycling or taking a bus. And, 12 Lynbrook off theGlasheen Road, near St Finbarr’s Cemetery and Flannery’s pub, does it all with size and space for the largest of broods, with six or even seven bedrooms on offer, depending on usage.

That’s because the vendors took the option some years ago to extend this house into the attic space, so that now this uppermost floor has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Having accommodated a good-sized family, the owners are now trading down, having built a new, smaller home on part of the original corner site here.

There’s around 20 houses in Lynnbrook, which was developed around the late 1980s by well-regarded builder Eugene O’Connor, only some of which have been extended to this size, calculated to be c 2,250 sq ft, by its selling agent Dennis Guerin of Frank V Murphy & Co auctioneers. His price expectation is €735,000-plus.

Rooms here include a 17’ by 14’ lounge with marble fireplace, study or optional bedroom, spacious kitchen with fitted units and breakfast counter/eating area, living area, rear lobby and main hall, three ground floor bedrooms with one en suite bathroom and one main bathroom, while overhead (via a spiral staircase) one of the three good-sized bedrooms has an en suite, and here’s another bathroom overhead as well.

Overall condition is very good, and there’s lots of eaves and elsewhere storage, built-ins and vanity units in bedrooms to swallow up a family’s sundry possessions. No 12, also called Belair, has gas central heating, an alarm, and an address that spells sheer convenience.