One house, two sections, and five beds on 1.5 acres

DO the numbers at number five, Oakridge, and check your bearing before viewing. The address might sound suburban, but the location is rural, in a development of large one-offs at Rathcooney, four miles out of Cork city.

Number five is a big, 4,000 sq ft house, with five bedrooms in two sections (the layout is individual, to say the least), with three separate internal staircases and with a 1,000 sq ft detached garage, all on a 1.5-acre site. All for an asking price of €850,000.

Built nine years ago by its vendors who are now downsizing, it has a self-contained wing off to the left, separately accessed, with two bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen/living dining space, and its own connecting staircase.

In an unusual layout, there’s a first-floor lounge above the kitchen, with its own staircase in the kitchen, while there’s another main staircase off the entry hall. There’s a ground-floor, en suite master bedroom, and two more overhead bedrooms, one with its own en suite. And, up here also is that first-floor rear lounge, opening to an elevated balcony.

Selling agent is Michael O’Donovan, of Sherry FitzGerald, who says the €850,000 asking price represents good value in the current market.

He says the 1,000 sq ft garage is suitable for office/work use with scope on the left-hand side for a second dwelling.

Features include two, large oak trees by the electronic entrance gates, a new avenue of trees, and a sunny rear patio.