Architect-designed family home

SET near the Irish Guide Dogs Association HQ on Cork’s Model Farm Road is this late 1990s family home par excellence, in a handily-reached location, from Ballincollig or Bishopstown, for buyers trading up.

The brown brick-faced home, Bromley, is detached, and has about 2,500 sq ft of space, and five bedrooms, two of which are en suite.

“It’s a lovely house, architect-designed and very low maintenance on the outside. There’ll be lots of interest in it, and it has a fine south-facing private back garden,” says Jarleth Boyd of Hamilton Osborne King, which seeks offers over €850,000.

It has a galleried entrance hall, with lot of good living areas off, most with maple floors. These rooms include a sitting room with bay window, dining room and a family room with French doors to the rear patio. The limed-oak kitchen also has patio access, and a bay window to prise out the last of the garden views. Also on the ground level is a utility room and guest WC.

Overhead, via the mahogany stairs, two of the five bedrooms are en suite.

Heating is by gas, and Bromley is at the western end of the Model Farm Road, within a few hundred yards of the new approach road to the Ballincollig bypass, near the Poulevone roundabout, which is under consideration by Cork County Council as the springboard for the new northern ring road continuation.