Lift the latch on this fine 90s detached
Monswood, a cluster of about three dozen detached houses on Clarke’s Hill in Rochestown, Cork was built in the mid/late 1990s — and there’s been precious few re-sales ever since.
No 16, which is one of the smaller of the two main detached house types, with about 2,500 sq ft of space, was one of those very few subsequent re-sales.
Its buyers came down to Cork from Dublin and bought here about 2003, and are now re-locating to the west of Ireland.
It is one of those mid-market places that should benefit from the Budget 2011 reduction in stamp duty to just 1%, and is guided at €575,000 by agents Brian Olden and Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing. It’s a walk-in job for a family, with four good bedrooms, two en suites, and a good array of ground floor rooms too, including a warm sun-room overlooking the private, sunny back garden.
The two front rooms left and right of the central hall (it’s a very symmetrical, four-square sort of build) have bay windows and corniced ceilings, and the 19’ by 13’ living room and the rear 13’ by 13’ family room each have good, large cast iron fireplaces, one plumbed for gas, the other an open fire. Floors, for the most part downstairs, are oak or tile, and the main space is the 25’ deep kitchen, stretching back into a modest dining/breakfast area extension. While the kitchen, with units either side of its 10’ width is fine as it stands, it possibly could do with an upgrade or reordering to make it less of a passageway. An option might be to knock through the front dining room, and put a window in the side wall for southerly light. Or, you could just leave it — really, any extra investment here will be discretionary.
This isn’t a bells’n’whistles sort of house, there’s few of the accoutrements of the noughties, no wired for everything sort of whizz-kid toys, bubbles in the Jacuzzi bathtub and crazy tiling going on here — but it has got things that really matter, and will stand the test of time.
First up, it’s in a good, cul de sac residential location where all of the houses’ landscaping seems to be moving on in tandem, all giving a sense of settled, suburban serenity.
No 16 has a great screen of tall bamboos, especially to the back, giving a touch of ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ scene feel to it.
The back garden isn’t overly large, but the aspect is right and the rear patio, like the front drive, is paved in brick.
Landscaping is well done front, side and back of this corner site, and although the exterior’s a bit bereft of colour right now after such a bracing winter, there’s a lot of good stuff getting ready to burst into life in the next few months as viewings progress. 16 Monswood is a bit of a box ticker, all of the basics are more than covered — and they don’t come up for sale very often.
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