Phoenix takes flight as property goes on market

PHOENIX House is aptly named in at least one respect — like the bird coming from the ashes it is about to rise again, albeit on the property market.

Phoenix House, also known as number 47, is one of the attractive, older style houses on the way in to Marble Hall Park at the start of the Douglas Road in Cork before St Finbarr's Hospital.

It last changed hands only a year or two ago (one of just a handful of sales in the past decade), and the current vendors installed central heating last year, but an amount of appropriate modernising is still to be done.

A two-storey house with a single storey extension, it has a porch entrance, two reception rooms with Edwardian fireplaces, the front living room has a bay window, there's also a breakfast room, a kitchen in need of updating, and three overhead bedrooms.

Two of the bedrooms have old fireplaces and the rooms are a good enough size, the third is on the smaller side and there's a bathroom as well at upper level.

Attractions include the old world feel, and the renovation challenge will be to retain charm while adding comfort.

It has both front and back gardens, off street parking, gas central heating with a combi boiler and windows are an earlier replacement in aluminium.

It is within a short walk of the city centre about a mile via Southern Road and Anglesea Street or the South Terrace, so a buyer working in the city can leave the car at home, or even out of the budget calculations altogether for a personal domestic version of park and ride/trot.

Price guide is close to €300,000, with Jerry Cronin Solicitors on Sullivan's Quay handing inquiries.