A lovely home in good location

DETACHED and dating back to the post-war period, Renmore is a handsome family home in a handy location.

The location is right on the suburban Model Farm Road in Cork, at the city end of this well-regarded stretch, and it is perfectly placed relative to a number of amenities and major employment bases, such as UCC, CIT, the University Hospital and the Bon Secours, as well as a business and technology park and the revamped County Hall.

Just before the Rendezvous bar, on the right hand side leaving the city, the dormer home has been extended in the past so that there’s now lots of ground floor space to play around with.

However, as it stands, Renmore has just three bedrooms overhead: “the house almost asks for more bedrooms to be built on top of the ground floor extension,” says estate agent Peter Cave of Hamilton Osborne King.

He puts a neat €650,000 price guide on the place and accepts that any new owner will want to spend more sums modernising.

The interior is “quite original,” he says of the place that has been well cared for, but not overhauled, bar the extension some years ago and some replacement hardwood windows put in.

Rooms include sitting room, TV room/study and family room. There’s also a kitchen, utility, guest WC and cloakroom, and thee first floor bedrooms and main bathroom.