Large garden and estuary views with Skehard Road family home

A BIG house, a big view and a large site: the original family home now to the side of the contemporary-styled Brickfields residential development off Cork’s Skehard Road, is up for sale.

The four-bedroom detached house, owned by the Dunlea family who sold land for the apartments and detached house scheme Brickfields overlooking Douglas and the Mahon estuary, is new to the market with estate agent Timothy Sullivan, who also sold the development.

The older-styled house now up for sale with a €950,000 asking price has about 1,700 sq ft of space, with four bedrooms, one main bathroom, a 25 ft by 16 ft, extensively glazed reception room and utility/study, large hall and guest WC. It was built several decades ago and has been partially upgraded since.

But it is the elevated 0.37 acre site and stepped garden almost on the brow of a suburban hill that is the real star, that and the sunny aspect, water views and the municipal Mahon golf course directly underneath, with Douglas and Blackrock villages, along with Mahon Point, just a few minutes’ drive away.

Also with Timothy Sullivan are a number of the reasonably large and distinctive 2,000 sq ft Brickfields homes alongside, with split-level interiors giving rooms with three/five internal levels. Essentially young peoples’ properties and pitched to those who like their design contemporary, they are priced at older person’s affordability levels, selling from €925,000 each.

Other similar vintage (and older) detached houses down along this ridge towards Douglas have sold in the past year or so at prices from €1 million to €1.5m.