Rare opportunity to buy in desirable city suburb

SET just off the Model Farm Road in Cork city’s western suburbs, the detached family home Belvedere in Farranlea Park has a €565,000 price guide.

Houses only extremely rarely come up in this settled residential strip, says estate agent Regina Kelleher of Thomas J O’Driscoll auctioneers, who says trading-up viewings should be strong as a consequence from would-be buyers across the western side of the city.

The four/five bed home is on a narrow, but deep, suburban site, with front and back gardens and off-street parking for up to three cars.

It has a garage with immediate conversion potential for anyone looking to maximise family living space.

But, as it stands, the mid-1900s house has three reception rooms, kitchen, and four bedrooms, plus optional fifth room or study thanks to a first floor extension over the attached garage.

Two of the reception rooms have fireplaces, while the third, a dining room, has patio doors to the rear garden.

There’s a storage area off the kitchen, and new owners might extend into the garage, adding on a guest WC and fuller utility room and/or further living space.

The property has at present just the one main family bathroom, but there’s scope for an en suite next to the bathroom as two bedrooms adjoining it are interlinked.