Garden delight gives Blackrock home the edge

TREMENDOUS gardens says the brochure and you can’t argue with the description of this corner site, especially as it’s plonked on the corner of the Blackrock Road and Crab Lane.

This is a grade A residential zone, and along with the manicured hedging and lawn of the site you get a three-bed semi which probably dates from the late 30s.

Undeveloped, Knocknacurra comes in a state of grace and will certainly get trader-uppers slavering. This is Blackrock, after all.

The baseline guide is €530,000 through auctioneer, Tim Sullivan, but when you consider the record-smashing prices recently made in Lindville this is a mere parry compared to what the property could make with the full thrust of bidding.

And it’s a house for deep pockets, when the eventual sale is included along with stamp duty and the cost of a significant redevelopment.

Right now it comes with a tiled entrance hallway, a sitting room of 13’ by 13’, a dining room of 12’ by 12’ and a kitchen of 12’ by 8’. There’s a large landing upstairs with three bedrooms and a bathroom and the sale includes a garden shed.

Knocknacurra has vehicular access from Crab Lane and pedestrian access from the Blackrock Road.

Timothy Sullivan and Associates are the people to contact.