Family fortunate to find this home

THE pictures and brochure suggest it, and the house itself proves it: 50 Chestnut Meadows is a family home par excellence.

The recently-built, detached four-bed home went up for sale just in the pre-Christmas gloom and Budget uncertainties.

Now, with the days getting long and the market re-awakening, viewings will draw bids around the €625,000-plus asking price. Whether it breaches the €635,000 9% stamp duty rate remains to be seen.

Set just above the Cork residential village of Glanmire, it fits the trading-up bill with aplomb, and families with children can immediately see how it will accommodate their needs.

The vendors made it child and teen-friendly, and at the risk of gender stereotyping, there are rooms done in pure girly colours, hot pink and lilac and a boys’ room too with dart board, car posters and a drum kit.

Built three years ago by Murphy Construction, No 50 “gives an immediate sense of space” says Conor Lynch of Dick Barry Property Partners in Glanmire, selling jointly with ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy.

The house faces a green area, with a south-facing back garden. Glanmire’s services are close by and the city is six miles away.

The brick and dash-finished dormer has a living room with gas-fired, cast-iron fireplace, double doors to the dining/kitchen space, bay window and maple floors. There’s a second reception room/lounge also with gas fire insert fireplace, and the kitchen/dining space has pine units, an island and patio doors. The ground level also has a utility room and guest loo off the hall.

All four bedrooms are upstairs, there’s built-in and eaves storage, and the main bedroom is en suite, with a Jacuzzi bath in the family bathroom.