Well worth a pilgrimage

CALLING homes after the names of saints, places of pilgrimage and even honeymoon destinations is so 1960s — and, for the most part the names have stuck, up on house pillars and walls, proudly displayed in marble, brass or wood.

So it is with Assisi, a Cork family home, carrying the name of the Italian birthplace of St Francis on its main Douglas Road entrance pillars.

The four-bed semi-detached home is next door to the old AIB bank branch, with some local shops nearby and a newly re-opened Maxol station and Spar shop in place of the old Dunmahon Esso filling station. Douglas village is a three minute walk, and there’s a full range of schools adjacent.

Weighing in with about 1,250 sq ft of space, and an easily extended into detached garage, it’s in good order, just old fashioned, showing its era and age, but well-built and solid nonetheless. It’s big bonus is its direct south-facing back garden, which means the kitchen is bright all day long.

Assisi is on the market with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald carrying a realistic €320,000 price guide. It has a good-sized entrance porch (though it feels as if the internal and external doors here are reversed,) hall, guest WC, two reception rooms, kitchen with pantry as a bonus, and three overhead double bedrooms, plus a single, and family bathroom.

It has a paved and planted front garden with drive and parking/garage access, and a modest-sized private back garden, with double glazing, and oil heating.