Showing its age — but in nice way

SHOWING its age — but in a good way — and its bare, good bones is 1 St Mary’s Place, between St Luke’s Cross and Dillons Cross on Cork city’s venerable northside suburbs.

Some of this three-bedroomed house’s original stone and brick walls have been left exposed, such as in the entrance hallway, and other retained features include stripped pine doors, old floor tiling in the hall and rear dining room by the kitchenette, and cast iron tiled fireplaces, with two such chimneypieces in the two upstairs double bedrooms.

Selling agents Sherry FitzGerald bill No 1 as an end-terraced home of about 850 sq ft, suitable they say as a first-time buyer option, or for traders-down. A 10 minute fast downhill walk will have an owner back in the city centre, while for the more sedentary, there’s on-street parking.