Arise and go to Innisfree

THE Douglas road house Innisfree has the perfect antidote to its busy main road location — its own separate rear access.

The four-bed semi-detached house in salubrious surrounds is within a stone's throw of Douglas village close enough to wheel a shopping trolley from either of the two shopping centres.

Close too are cinema, restaurants, bars, shops, library, schools, off-licences, pharmacy etc.

This main road house, near Woodview and opposite the new Allied Irish Bank premises, has car access to its long back garden via a cul de sac lane off Woodview and this takes you up the garden path to the back door and double doors to a conservatory off the dining room.

Inisfree is on the market with Brendan Quinlan of Hamilton Osborne King, who guides it "in excess of €340,000," a level which should surely be well-surpassed given its prime Douglas location.

However, the house will need some further investment after purchase: while its windows have been replaced, it doesn't, for example, yet have central heating, though the hall has a storage heater, the two reception rooms have fireplaces (one with gas insert) and three of the four bedrooms have fireplaces also.

There's a front garden, and the back garden is mostly lawned, with mature boundaries, a tiled patio, shed and an outside loo.