Handsome slice of suburban history follows suitors

BUILT as a pair of matching semi-ds back in 1904 by the Cork Scott family of stevedores, this handsome red-brick Douglas duo catalogue a slice of suburban history in their century-plus of fine standing.

The left hand house of the Cross Douglas Road pair, Edenvale, sold four years ago for around the €1 million mark; now, its sibling, Innisfail, is up for sale and open to new ownership too, aspiring to a €750,000 AMV.

While Edenvale (now the better of the two, with a far larger site, and previously already well extended) was built for senior Scott ownership in 1904, this other half was designed for a daughter who lived here for some time. Innisfail subsequently was also home to a parish priest of Douglas in the 1940s and 1950s, had a few more occupants and was bought back in the 1970s as an investment property, and was rented ever since.