Gardens of Eden a walk from the city

IT is probably the best house on the Cross Douglas Road in Cork - and so the €1 million barrier will be breached for enviable Edenvale.

Recent large period semis sales on this linking residential stretch between the front and back Douglas Roads have gone from around €600,000 to over €750,000. However, this house - on the market with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald pitched at the €1 million mark - is set to push the price barrier quite a bit further than the neighbours. And, rightly so.

It is bigger, broader, and, quite rightly given its Edwardian period provenance, quite masculine in character. But that’s not all - the big selling point here literally is big - it is the whopper of a rear garden.