Lindville property expected tospark major buyer interest

DESPITE the €1.2 million price tag, there’ll be a queue to the door of no 4, and the price guide is likely to go out the window in just as quick a fashion.

Lindville homes are Cork’s classic trader-uppers, late 1990s homes built to a Victorian-style palette in a cracking Blackrock Road address.

With its five bedrooms, three en suites and quality fit-out, No 4 is one of the very best houses in this super-successful 60-plus residential scheme which, paradoxically, saw its builders go bust. The conventional market wisdom is that the developers allowed too many of the buyers to make too many individual changes, which bogged the whole scheme down in delays and cost-over-runs, eliminating economies of scale.

If that is true, then the vendors of 4 Linvdille must take their part in the ‘blame;’ they got in early, got one of the very best sites with a great rear garden aspect, and then they ‘went large’; with the house on this prime slot.

The biggest Lindville homes were the ‘A,’ followed in pecking order by ‘B,’ ‘C’ and so on.

This ostensibly is a ‘B,’ but in it is a B-plus, swelled up from its initially designed size of 2,200 sq ft to now measure about 2,800 sq ft. The size of an ‘A.’ These things may count for something in places like Lindville, where even the car reg plates put a distance between themselves and the 1990s.

Hamilton Osborne King who sold the Lindville homes built on the site of a privately owned hospital, now have no 4 as a new listing, and enthuse that “it is undoubtedly one of the finest and most exciting properties to come to the market this season.” One of the finest, quite possibly, but their sense of excitement is probably more in anticipation of the moneyed hordes they will have coming trooping through. Truly, the €1 million-plus market in the southern city is scorching, and this Lindville house will be deemed a bit of a trophy buy.

It has been done out in ‘money-no-object’ style, from the attentive, meticulous and already matured landscaping with a back garden that is ringed with stone walls and marked out with brick-walled and paved seating areas.

The house was built two metres deeper, front to back, than its ‘B’ model peers, and this gave extra space and room size over each of its three floors.

Rooms include a drawing room, with marble fireplace, bookshelves and oak floor, dining room also with hardwood floor, a 24’ by 12’ kitchen/dining room with array of built-ins, central island, granite worktops, a family room down a couple of steps from here, and a pantry to the side, leading to a utility with access to the front and back gardens. There’s a guest WC off the hallway, which has an intricate Victorian tiled floor.

Upstairs, the master bedroom has both en suite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe, and it overlooks the back garden for privacy, while bedroom two is to the front, bed three is an optional study, the main bathroom is done with antique style Victorian ware, and the top floor has two en suite bathrooms.

As in other Lindville homes, the build quality is high, windows are hardwood sash, heating is by gas, and the setting of no 4 is in a cul de sac just inside the entrance, with Cork city and the Marina, as well as Blackrock village all within an easy walk.