Generous space in original home

A GREAT corner garden site, and a pristine four-bed detached family home on it, will appeal to traders-up casting an eye over Garrycloyne.

This rock-solid, four-square 1960s home is at the end of Bellair estate, between Cork’s Douglas and Ballinlough roads with the quirky deli Joup at its long garden boundary. It is a new arrival with Sherry FitzGerald, who guide it at €490,000.

The site’s an unusual shape, with a long, tapering side garden with lots of road frontage and a clipped screening hedge: if this had come up for sale a few years ago, there’d have been a posse with an eye to an extra house site potential here. That potential might still exist, but there’s also immediate scope to enlarge this c 1,400 sq ft house out to the side. Already, a few neighbouring houses have done extensions, and quite a few have converted attics.