Location’s the key with four-bedroomed semi

EASY walking distance of Douglas village, proximity to the south ring road, on a bus route, schools nearby... there’ll be good interest then in 10, Trabeg Lawn off the South Douglas Road in Cork.

A new market arrival, it is an older style semi-d in need of modernising, but with the essential attributes — space, a robust build, and location.

Estate agent John Deady of Hamilton Osborne King seeks offers around €550,000 for no 10, a four-bed semi with bay windows at two levels in front, a partly converted attic space with dormer window, and a detached garage with fuel store and garden WC.

No 10, a post-war semi, is done to a template many house-hunters here in the older housing estates around inner Douglas will be familiar with, but in this case its two front reception rooms have been knocked through by the occupants. Each of these linked spaces has a tiled fireplace, at either facing end, and there’s also a kitchen to the rear, and good sized hall with closet.

Overhead, there are four bedrooms, two good doubles and one has a bay window, and the two remaining rooms are generous (by today’s standards at least) singles.

There’s a main bathroom, and pull-down stair access, but because of the hipped roof on the side getting full and proper stair access to the attic is going to eat into one bedroom’s floor space.

The upside to buying at face value is that you get to spend your further sums on what you want, not paying extra for stuff you are going to remove or upgrade.

No 10 has private walled-in mature gardens, gravelled drive for off-street parking and a Douglas location which cuts out traffic congestion on the outer loop.