100-year-old home site for 21st century makeover

WHAT you see isn’t what you get with Crown Park Villa. The reality is a tired 100-year-old home, in Cork city’s elevated Montenotte, but it is a house with dreams of a new life.

That new life is for a replacement dwelling, architect-designed. Full planning permission exists for that dream, so a buyer only has to act on it and the plans in hand — and pay for it.

Crown Park Villa last came up for sale over two years ago, with a 395,000 asking price. But, as the reality of the work needed sunk it, it eventually sold for a sum in the low €300,000s, with the plan to knock the 100-year-old house and its 1920’s glazed front extension.