Blackrock Road homes offer contrasting choices

DIFFERENT eras and contrasting house styles at different ends of the Blackrock Road in Cork are newly on offer.

Freshly up for sale is 2, Allevard, just beyond Ashton school, as is 35 Gate Lode, out further again by Blackrock Castle.

Due for an auction disposal in late February is the late Victorian/Edwardian-era large semi-detached house 2 Allevard, at the city end of the Blackrock Road and laid out in up to 10 bedsits.

Agent John Paul Sheehan of Lisneys, acting for receivers Barry Donohue and Kieran Wallace of KPMG on behalf of a bank, gives a guide price of €375,000 for the property, in need of an upgrade.

He says the 2,800 sq ft period house (which appears structurally sound and with double glazing) may suit as conversion back to a family home, or as an investment reduced to a smaller number of improved apartments.

South-facing to the front, it has good off-street parking, and a small, north-facing back yard with views over Monahans Road, the River Lee and Montenotte.

Meanwhile, ready to move into is 35 Gate Lodge, off Castle Road in Blackrock, with an option for new owners of four or three beds.

The 1,150 sq ft sq corner set home in the Gate Lodge development is for sale with agents Sherry FitzGerald, who seek offers around €255,000.

Its owners decided to make over their small fourth bedroom to add space to their main, master bedroom, but it can easily revert to four-bed status if required, and the corner site allows scope for extension to the side and back, says SF agent Ann O’Mahony.

There’s a guest loo off the hall, interconnecting lounge and family room, with family dining/kitchen off via an archway. Overhead are three beds, plus main family bathroom, and heating is via gas.