Hi-tech and hi-spec — this stunning hillside home simply has it all
Up on a south-facing hill at the end of Sunday’s Well in Cork city, and tucked into mature trees under Shankiel, it is a privately-set home with unstinting specification. Built in the mid-2000s, it has a €1.1 million asking price, and has all the evidence of costing that and more to build and fit out to this level, on this site. Pride of place goes to what looks like a novelty, but is in fact a highly useful gizmo, a turntable used to turn cars around at the end of the stone-cobbled drive so that drivers don’t have to worry about reversing. It is slick, it works, and it will bring joy to any aspiring train buff who’s hankered after this sort of thing after seeing Thomas the Tank.
It is just one very practical example of the amount of thought that has gone into getting this 2,800 sq ft house and terraced gardens into its tight, steeply sloping and elevated site. Location is up near the end of Rose Hill, more or less above Wellington Bridge but hidden by the summer swathe cloak of greenery on trees: height-wise above the River Lee, it seems to be on a par with the mid-section of County Hall.
Architect-designed, and built by John O’Connor of Ovens, it is a split level or two-storey house with its main bedrooms below decks and the main living areas on top, in through the marble floored hall from the front portico entrance.
Three of its four bedrooms are en suite, making for five bathrooms in all, done as wet rooms, with top brand name sanitary ware, sparking feature tiles and some mosaic work, and slick glass doors, sandblasted.
Selling agent is Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing, who guides the one-off at €1.1 million and who notes that there’s practically nothing of this quality currently for sale in the southern city and suburbs — although a few on a par in the quality stakes at Fleming Construction’s Earls Well in Waterfall west of Bishopstown are finding buyers since appearing in these pages last month.
The kitchen here is by Houseworks, with thick granite tops and high splashback, banks of appliances are by Siemens and that ilk, plus an Aga, the separate office has units by Haus, and the 3,000 sq ft house is smart-wired for sound and IT.
There are raised decked balconies off the upstairs en suite guestroom, and off the high-ceilinged kitchen/dining/family room, there’s also a primely-set drawing room with curved bay, and directly beneath that is a family/TV/media room. The grounds are tiered, gravelled, banked by sleepers and planted up with bamboo, tree ferns, and more. And, not a blade of grass to be minded.
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