Two houses, one sale, €675,000 price-tag

LITTLE and large are on offer in one sale at Brookwood Lodge off Maryborough Hill in Douglas, Cork.

The 2,600 sq ft home has an attached and self-contained 800 sq ft apartment called Little Brook alongside it.

The detached dormer home was built in the early 1990s, and is the last house in the enclave called The Heights. This is a cul-de-sac scheme of over 30 one-off houses, built on quite large sites within the Broadale development which includes shops and other facilities.

The combined mix of Brookwood Lodge and Little Brook at 1 The Heights gives new owners lots of options over 3,400 sq ft.

The main residence has up to five bedrooms, with a ground floor en suite master bedroom, a study or bedroom five, ground floor bathroom, three overhead bedrooms and another bathroom. Reception rooms include living room, a very attractive square conservatory/dining room just off the kitchen with breakfast bar, utility and there’s a good sized hall with oak staircase.

Little Brook could be used as a home office or as a home for grandparents, independent teenagers, or stay-at-home twenty-somethings.

“They’re almost like semi-detached houses, they are so independent,” says Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing auctioneers, who gives an all-in price guide of €675,000 for the duo at 1, The Heights.

The self-contained apartment or mews has up to 800 sq ft of space, the size of a decent enough apartment, and it has one bedroom, hall, kitchen, large 16ft by 13ft living room, dining/sunroom and bathroom.

There’s no direct access between the two units at the moment, and they have independent utilities - the house has oil heating, the mews has gas.