The perfect home is waiting for you

WHISPER it softly, but Bridgewater is a little bit chi-chi, a bit of posh off the Poulavone Roundabout.

That’s according to Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald, who sees a lot of buyers come out of the woodwork for Bridgewater houses.

And it’s not so much the location as the layout and the tree-lined setting on the Lee Valley.

The Cork estate has a Model Farm Road/ Ballincollig location with a Carrigrohane address.

Houses here are not big and brash, in fact these four-beds only have 1,300 square feet apiece, but a sale usually starts a fluttering in the dove cotes.

On the market at €635,000, no 21 Bridgewater has a wedge-shaped corner site with lovely, mature gardens. The front approach, in a corner of one area of the estate, is narrow, but spreads out behind giving a sunny, east to west garden with a very private barbecue corner.

The walls are covered in climbers and to the side, there’s plenty of room for a garden shed, which could be pushed out in favour of a south-east facing kitchen extension.

The kitchens in these houses are narrow, but they do run back to front and most of the existing properties have some sort of addition. To the right of no 21, there’s a formal sitting room, accessed through double doors with a really sunny living room behind. This room, like the front, has a good fireplace and comfortable dimensions. There’s a tiny guest toilet off the main hallway.

Upstairs, a nicely symmetrical landing leads onto four bedrooms and a main bathroom, all bright with just one single room and an en suite master bedroom.

This house is in very good condition. The gardens are going to the be the real draw for buyers here, as will the safe location with large green area.