Detached Kilmona has scope for grandiose dreamers

THERE are options galore at Kilmona, a 1930s Edwardian-style detached house off Cork’s main Douglas Road in the chic cul-de-sac Endsleigh Park.

There’s less than a dozen houses here, a few semis and mostly individual detacheds, and sales here are rare as anything.

In family hands for decades, and original in pretty much every way, is this detached four-bed Kilmona, with scope for grandiose dreamers, or those who’d put their last cent on a rock-solid location, and who’ll even save for future upgrading, glad just to get a foot inside the door in such a setting.

Kilmona is new to the market as an executor sale, with estate agent Dennis Guerin of Frank V Murphy & Co, who’s had all the public sale offerings in ‘old’ Endsleigh in the past decade...all two of them.

He guides it at €890,000 and expects good interest.

It faces west in front, with a long east-facing rear where there’s a patio crying out for a sun room/bright breakfast room.

The site is over 50’ wide, with scope for extension to the left, over or in place of the adjoining garage with its side passage access, store and coal bunkers, and the overall property is 160’ deep from front wall to back boundary.

Surveyors will poke their noses into the recesses of this house for nervous buyers, but its bones seem good and it has 1,600 sq ft or more of space. Standing out in the back garden you can see a range of existing extensions and sun rooms in the neighbouring homes and to those fronting on to Woodview as well: garden sizes allow for extensions without impinging on anyone’s sense of space or privacy.

Kilmona has reception rooms left and right of the main hall (one just needs French doors to break out to the gardens) and the kitchen is average-sized in the middle rear, with a pantry/utility room off it, as well as a guest WC, and it has secondary access to a dining/reception room.

Overhead are four bedrooms, and one has a modest walk-in (or peer in) cupboard and a shower room en suite.

Kilmona needs attention in most areas, but this can run from the decorative to far more substantial sums. This is a house where location, setting and site size make for buying sense.