Stylish period home near river offers chance to join village people

FANCY joining the village people, in a city suburb?

A fine period roadside home in the very heart of Blackrock village, with Cork’s waterways a few hundred yards away is on offer with estate agent Tim Sullivan. It promises location on the one side, and a fine private sun-trap back garden on the other.

Mr Sullivan guides Dundanion at €750,000, which reflects its Blackrock address and period stature. It’s a manageable home for a wide cross-section of buyers, both traders-up, older people trading down who want to be near all services, and couples looking for a place of distinction to dress up with appropriately fine furniture and bits of art.

This fine home has ornate plasterwork, stone fireplaces, window shutters and light-filled stairwell with lofty landing window.

It follows hot on the heels of a recent nearby cottage sale on this road, where a smartly renovated but compact two-bed just a few doors away made c €450,000. Strongly bid for its size, it shows the demand for individual homes of character in the Blackrock village, where the large new homes development Eden also continues to sell to a different buying cohort.

Dundanion has been owned and invested in over the last number of years by its owners, who built a solid sun-room to the back, to maximise the southerly aspect, and they also reduced the bedroom tally to three from four, to allow for a bigger master bedroom, with shower room and dressing area/walk-in wardrobe.

It has about 1,800 sq ft of living space over two levels, with period featured retained, and rooms include a hall with oak floor, a formal sitting room with stone fireplace, a dining room also with a fireplace, study, fully fitted kitchen, which has arched access to a high-ceilinged sun room or breakfast room with French doors to a patio, ringed with limestone walls.

Overhead, the main bedroom is an 18’ x 14’ 6” room with a large en suite bathroom with pumped shower. The two bedrooms are doubles, and the bathroom has a separate shower unit, while central heating for the house is via natural gas.