Panoramic views over lower harbour

STANDING on a high site at Ballynoe, Cobh, this modern, red-brick has panoramic views over the lower harbour of Cork city.

Looking across to Monkstown and Glenbrook with Passage to the east, this house faces south and has gardens sloping towards to shoreline.

On the market with Micheal Piggott of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan, it has a guide of €585,000. For that you get half an acre of ground in a private cul-de-sac, four bedrooms and a broad sweep of living space.

Inside, the house has plenty of character with clean white walls, red brick fireplaces and terracotta flooring with pitch pine ORM kitchen units.

Room sizes are good with a kitchen of 19’ by 11’, with separate pantry and utility, a dining room of 15’ by 11’, a family room and a large living room of 19’ by 12’.