Pinewood interior’s a winner

APPEARANCES deceive: don’t be put off by the fogged up front window (a failed double glazing pane) at 6 Pinewood: the house within is a far clearer and cleaner affair.

This mid-terrace home is just by the start of the Ballinlough Road in Cork city, a stone’s throw from where the Douglas Road crosses over the old rail line...now the south link road.

This puts it within a mile of City Hall and the city centre, and the other locational marker is St Finbarr’s Hospital.

No 6 Pinewood is a few weeks on the market with Hugh McPhillips of Marshs auctioneers, who seeks €440,000, and who has it under offer a bit shy of this.

A visit shows it is far better inside than out, and has been fully overhauled in the last few years and comes with a rear extension and a largely open plan ground floor area stretching back into it.

It has been wired, plumbed, plasterer and more, all anew, and it has three first floor bedrooms, one mid-ships with smart roof window for light, and the back bedroom is very private.

The ground floor’s front room is a stand-alone space, 15’ by 10’, with bay window and fireplace, and to the back there’s a second living space opening to a bigger, bright, south-facing kitchen/breakfast room with beech kitchen and fitted appliances, included in the sale.

The back wall is, in effect a wall of glass with French doors to a walled-in patio area, a bit more than room-sized, overlooked by neighbours but tolerably so.