Down to €580,000 in Ashbrook

IN 2003, big, detached houses on large sites in east Cork’s Ashbrook, near Carrigtwohill, were priced at €500,000. This had risen to €900,000 by 2006, when Amgen was optimistically mooted as a major local pharma sector employer. Prices have been sliding since.

Leugh Lodge, one of the larger of the dozen detached homes in Ashbrook, within walking distance of the new Carrigtowhill rail station, was for sale in October, 2007, for €820,000.

It is back to the market for €580,000, via Clare O’Sullivan, of Savills, who says the site is almost an acre, while the floor area of the four-bed, detached house is 2,650 sq ft, excluding an attic area, listed for storage and with two Velux windows to the back.

Ms O’Sullivan extols the house’s interior design, and says it has been remodelled to maximise the accommodation, and has a vaulted-roof sun room, opening both to the kitchen/dining room, and to the rear patio and gardens. The kitchen has cream units, oak worktops and an oak floor, and both the kitchen and utility have ceramic sinks. There’s a front lounge of 19’ by 14’, with a bay window and oak floor, and behind, with garden access, is a larger, 24’ by 15’ second reception room.

The attached garage/workshop is 10’ wide and 17’ deep, and has extension/playroom scope.

Overhead, this house (with its bulk broken up visually by way of stepped front gables, as well as a mix of painted render and lower-bricked walls) has four bedrooms, one with en suite and dressing room, as well as main family bathrooms, and there’s onward, and upward, stair access to the floored attic.