Polished brasses, a cherished home, Bridgemount’s calling

THERE’s a feelgood factor immediately evident at Bridgemount, an Edwardian terraced home on Cork city’s Western Road – you just know from its polished brasses it has been a cherished family home.

Just a week or two up for sale this month and already heavily viewed, it is a townhouse in completely original and cared-for condition.

With original fireplaces upstairs and down, retained working sash and casement windows and an attractive double-fronted and bay windowed front face, it has retained architectural integrity.

It comes with three first-floor bedrooms, and two/three reception rooms (one, at the back and measuring 9’ by 9’, is best as a study, optional fourth bedroom or as a knock-through space). The location is spot-on for convenience, just opposite UCC’s burgeoning campus along the Western Road.

While it is on the busy Western Road, Bridgemount is set back just enough from the road to give separation and the front garden is big enough for several cars.

South facing and bright at the front, it faces on to the Mardyke at the rear, though its original very long back garden has been divided up and now a neat new bungalow has been built unobtrusively at the Mardyke garden end.

Nonetheless, the back garden is 65’ long and has been well planted and tended. There’s a rear kitchen annex, with outside store and outside WC and a small sun room extension could be an easy graft option here for a bit more kitchen/dining space.

Selling agent is Suzanne Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing.