Ideal four-bed family home

DOWN in its asking price, and with offers in lower than what’s currently being quoted, No 2 Bishopscourt Avenue in Cork city’s Bishopstown is an ideal family home ready to be sold, says agent John Barry of Keane Mahony Smith.

Quoting €545,000 and seeking offers to expedite a sale, the c1,700 sq ft four-bed detached house is in the heart of the western suburb, with very good surrounding gardens, especially with a long west-facing side garden by its left hand gable. This might give extension/sun-room scope, says Mr Barry, adding “even if you put a window in the side wall here, it would flood the double reception room with light.”

That L-shaped double room is 25’ by 17’ at max measurement, and there’s another family room, a kitchen with eight-year-old fitted units, utility, WC and attached garage. Overhead are four good double bedrooms, and a dated bathroom, and there’s easy access to attic storage.

“No 2’s got size, gardens, location, and proximity to schools, to the CUH, Wilton Shopping Centre and the South Link Road, it just needs a new owner now.”

Mr Barry gauges the suburban site at about one sixth of an acre, and says the 1960s house which needs freshening up is solidly built, by DJ McCarthy & Co who were known at the time for the quality of their builds.