Four bed detached house offers trading up options

TUCKED in off Cork’s Rochestown Road and up for sale in the quiet pre-Christmas market lull is 3, Kiltegan Lawn.

Offers around €450,000 are being sought for this four-bed detached home, within a short walk of Douglas village and in spotless and original condition, with parquet flooring in the hall and in its two reception rooms.

With the shortage of many new arrivals on the trading up second hand market, there’s been a good level of early interest in its first week up for sale and is already under offer. But, the early bid is a bit under its €450,000 guide described as “very fair” by Peter Cave and Justin McCarthy of Hamilton Osborne King’s Cork offices.

The marble fireplace in the 17’ by 12’ lounge is probably original to this house’s late 1980s provenance, though the black cast iron one in the family room may be a later upgrade, and this latter room also has sliding patio doors to the south-facing rear garden. The house backs on to the Rochestown Road, just beyond the Rochestown Park Hotel (the original seminary for the Kiltegan Fathers).

There’s a study/playroom to the left of the hall in a space which was originally intended as a garage space but which has a good pitched roof, and this side wing also gives the house enough ground floor accommodation for both utility and guest loo.

Upstairs, the main bedroom is L-shaped, with a max measurement of 18’ by 11’, and this room has an en suite with shower, while the main bathroom has a bath.