Location, size and views pay off

EVEN the house name and address are evocative, Tall Trees, on Temple Hill. But, it is the size of house, its site, location and elevated views that really delivers on the dotted line for committed house hunters.

Three miles from Cork city and the western suburbs is this 2,500 sq ft bungalow, built about 25 years ago by its family owners, who are now relocating to Co Kerry....they could probably see glimpses of the Cork-Kerry county bounds from here, in this perch over the River Lee at Carrigrohane, above the Anglers’ Rest.

The fine-sized family home, complete with a semi- basement with external access only and on a site of two thirds of an acre, is private, with just a gable glimpsed from the roadway on Temple Hill, within an easy walk of the Angler pub, swimming hole and main Inniscarra Road.

There are five bedrooms, with one en suite, and good-sized living rooms, including one with three windows, giving southerly and westerly views of the western suburbs, Model Farm Road, Ballincollig and beyond.

It is guided at €900,000-plus by Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald in Cork, and though it needs a modernising make-over she reckons viewers will include that strong-buying cohort, medics, especially those relocating to Cork’s hospitals, with all the main hospitals easily reached from here.

Tall Trees does, indeed, have lofty trees (the tallest are pines) surrounding it, and some might have to be cut back to open up the vistas and views; anyone laying out a garden today, beware, time’s onward march can be gauged in a tree’s rings, girth and height.

All five bedrooms here are doubles, living quarters including that large windowed-lounge, a family room, and a kitchen/dining room, and nearly all rooms have good light and garden views.

Windows are teak, single glazed, and there is oil heating and well water.

Most of the grounds are to the southerly/front/view side of the house, with car access to the back, which is really the front, if you get the drift.

The property includes a large garage, and the storage/basement area is another bit of a bonus.