Greybrook: setting the tone for a colourful life

BUILT about a quarter century ago, as an early timber framed house by (the then-pioneering) Noel Parkes, Windsor Meadows is a house in superb condition inside and out, on a prized and private 0.6 acre site just west of Cork city in Waterfall.

Its original and caring owners are now vendors, and they are trading down from this 3,300 sq ft family home, says auctioneer Barry Smith of James G Coughlan Associates. He pins a €975,000 asking price to Windsor Meadows in Greybrook, a mile or so beyond O’Shea’s pub in evolving Waterfall. This region, a few country miles drive from Bishopstown, is noted for the number of large ‘executive’ detached homes on good sites. Now, though, planning is tight, and building is confined to new developments, one-offs like this are rare and consequently carry a premium.

It has breathing space, thanks to its site size, and for those into the country life, it comes with stabling for a pony (but not enough grazing ground) and kennels.