St Jude’s has a good prayer of success

THERE’S plenty of hopeless cases out there, but St Jude’s probably isn’t one of them.

In Cork’s Midleton area, the family home St Jude’s is a new market arrival, with a good prayer of a successful sale — so vendors in this executor sale, despair not.

Set out by Castleredmond, just a mile or so from the east Cork’s town centre, the location is seen locally as very good, the sort of spot where the big detached and one-offs were built back around the 1960s.

With its of-its-era flat Cork stone clad facade, St Jude’s is new to market with agent Adrianna Hegarty, who seeks offers around its €450,000 price guide, and that’s for a 1,850 sq ft four-bed home, with granny flat, on a lovely south-facing half acre garden site.

It’s the sort of house where ‘everything is up on the shelf,’ with all the main living spaces and bedrooms facing the front: many of the rooms are double aspect, and a local architect is doing sketches to show how it might be best extended and upgraded as St Jude’s is on the dated side now.

Currently, there are three bedrooms with one en suite in the main house, plus sitting room/dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, sun-room and guest loo plus utility. Alongside, and linked in, is the compact self-contained granny flat, with bedrooms, bathroom and kitchenette.

Ms Hegarty describes St Jude’s as “a trophy home”’ — and while it now needs a bit more polish to restore it to prize status, it has all the basics stacked in its favour.

One to view, as spring life buds.