TRADING UP
Location: Firgrove Lawn, Cork
Price: €315,000
Size: Sq m 140 (1,500 sq.ft.)
Bedrooms: 4/5
BER rating: Pending
A SOUTH-FACING garden, extra large patio and an extra, fifth bedroom makes this Bishopstown house good value at the asking.
No 9 Firgrove Lawn is new on the market with TJ Cronin of Irish and European who says it’s in very good condition and offers a lot of house for the money.
Rooms include a sitting room, dining room, fitted kitchen and utility, an extra lounge, study or fifth bedroom. Overhead, there are three good double rooms and a single, with main bathroom.
The rear garden comes with a shed and the house is located overlooking and green and near Bishopstown GAA club.
VERDICT: Great location for families, with a choice of first, second and third-level schools.
€425,000
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
THE red-brick Limerick period home at 15 Crescent Avenue in the city has a great central location, and a characterful done-up and extended interior.
Its manages the tricky act of balancing the trick of keeping the old character, while modernising it for today’s living needs.
There’s a feature back garden/yard with raised brick planters, BBQ and it is extended slightly to the back as well, overlooked by the TV room/lounge as well as by the kitchen/diner, with hand-painted units.
The front room is described as sitting room/dining room, and both interconnected reception rooms have quality, original fireplaces. Overhead, the next level’s two bedrooms also have fireplaces, and the top floor is home to a third bedroom, with Veluxes to the back of the house.
Selling agents O’Connor Murphy Gubbins say there’s incredible attention to detail and a clever use made of space, adding that the location is in a quiet cul de sac, a popular residential area just off O’Connell Avenue.
VERDICT: A tasty home, with clear reminders of the house’s century-old period past and retained architectural features, polished wood floors etc. Parking is on-street, and there’s a railed in small front garden.
Location: Douglas Road, Cork
Price: €475,000
Size: Sq m 130 (1,400 sq ft)
Bedrooms:4
BER rating:Pending
THERE’S great original quality to Garrycloyne, a four-square, four-bed detached family home at 13 Bellair Estate, between Cork’s Douglas and Ballinlough Roads — within an amble of the city centre too.
The bright 1960s house is in quite original, yet immaculate condition, all bedrooms are doubles and there’s two reception rooms, each with original fireplaces. There’s huge scope here for extending and modernising too, thanks to a long, long side garden, practically a site in its own right. There’s also an old limestone wall fringing a sheltered rear courtyard, plus a detached garage. It has an alarm, gas heating, double glazing, and is ready to move into
VERDICT: A decent house, in every sense of the word.
Location: Clonakilty, west Cork
Price: €215,000
Size: Sq m 70 (750 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 2
BER rating: C1
ANYONE wanting to make a house move — trading down, first buy or second-home bolt-hole — to a safe coastal town environment would do well to cast an eye over Glebe House mews and gardens, behind the Georgian gem Emmet Square in Clonakilty.
The modern end-terrace townhouse, 15 D, in a secure private mews orchard/garden setting behind one the square’s biggest houses, is only a few years old, and has a good C1 BER rating thanks to good build quality and insulation.
Estate agent Martin Kelleher seeks offers around €215,000.
VERDICT: Glebe House mews and gardens has won awards and local praise for sensitive design. Clon’s right on your doorstep and beaches are nearby.
Location: Passage West, Co Cork
Price: €350,000
Size: Sq m 188 (2,024 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
THERE’S a lot of quality house going on inside and out the back of 21 Hillcrest, Pembroke Wood.
The three-storey, four-bed detached house is one of the those unusual tall homes in the Passage West, Cork harbour scheme — and the owner here made sense of it all thanks to a sunny rear extension, and some funky design and art touches that work with the design.
Thanks to a large 18’ by 15’ single story south-facing rear extension, there’s over 2,000 sq ft of crisp, contemporary space now, ranging out around an internal stairwell.
Selling agent is James Crowley of Crowley Property in Cork city, who says it shows extremely well.
VERDICT: The owner’s an artist, and her flair shows here in this sizeable buy.
Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: E2
Broadband: Yes
A ROUND, porthole window with some brick highlights looking a bit like eyelashes around an eye is a distinguishing front facade feature of 30 Lake Lawn.
This older style three-bed semi-d is off the Well Road in Cork’s Douglas suburbs, in a quiet setting.
The site is a good, decent size, with room to spread out in — and there’s even a double garage attached, for use by careful car owners, hobbyists or as a play room.
Estate agents Sherry FitzGerald say it now probably needs some modernisation, and so some buyers might look at a side extension. As it stands, No 30 has a front lounge, rear kitchen directly behind, with a dining room alongside, and both it and the kitchen overlook a south-facing back garden. There’s one main bathroom, and three overhead bedrooms in this 1,100 sq ft home.
The same agents, meanwhile, have another similar era semi-d nearby at 29 Ardmahon Estate, with a slightly bigger floor area, and also with a garage and good utility. No 29 is guided at €310,000.
VERDICT: These classic types of semi-d’s are coming back into their own with a new generation of buyers because of convenient, settled suburban locations. They’re always highly extendable, and all services are within a walk.
Location: Clonakilty, west Cork
Price: €215,000
Size: Sq m 70 (750 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 2
BER rating: C1
ANYONE wanting to make a house move — trading down, first buy or second-home bolt-hole — to a safe coastal town environment would do well to cast an eye over Glebe House mews and gardens, behind the Georgian gem Emmet Square in Clonakilty.
The modern end-terrace townhouse, 15 D, in a secure private mews orchard/garden setting behind one the square’s biggest houses, is only a few years old, and has a good C1 BER rating thanks to good build quality and insulation.
Estate agent Martin Kelleher seeks offers around €215,000.
VERDICT: Glebe House mews and gardens has won awards and local praise for sensitive design. Clon’s right on your doorstep and beaches are nearby.
Location: Passage West, Co Cork
Price: €350,000
Size: Sq m 188 (2,024 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
THERE’S a lot of quality house going on inside and out the back of 21 Hillcrest, Pembroke Wood.
The three-storey, four-bed detached house is one of the those unusual tall homes in the Passage West, Cork harbour scheme — and the owner here made sense of it all thanks to a sunny rear extension, and some funky design and art touches that work with the design.
Thanks to a large 18’ by 15’ single story south-facing rear extension, there’s over 2,000 sq ft of crisp, contemporary space now, ranging out around an internal stairwell.
Selling agent is James Crowley of Crowley Property in Cork city, who says it shows extremely well.
VERDICT: The owner’s an artist, and her flair shows here in this sizeable buy.
Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: E2
Broadband: Yes
A ROUND, porthole window with some brick highlights looking a bit like eyelashes around an eye is a distinguishing front facade feature of 30 Lake Lawn.
This older style three-bed semi-d is off the Well Road in Cork’s Douglas suburbs, in a quiet setting.
The site is a good, decent size, with room to spread out in — and there’s even a double garage attached, for use by careful car owners, hobbyists or as a play room.
Estate agents Sherry FitzGerald say it now probably needs some modernisation, and so some buyers might look at a side extension. As it stands, No 30 has a front lounge, rear kitchen directly behind, with a dining room alongside, and both it and the kitchen overlook a south-facing back garden. There’s one main bathroom, and three overhead bedrooms in this 1,100 sq ft home.
The same agents, meanwhile, have another similar era semi-d nearby at 29 Ardmahon Estate, with a slightly bigger floor area, and also with a garage and good utility. No 29 is guided at €310,000.
VERDICT: These classic types of semi-d’s are coming back into their own with a new generation of buyers because of convenient, settled suburban locations. They’re always highly extendable, and all services are within a walk.
Sq m: 112
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: D2
Broadband: Yes
A DETACHED house in Blackrock, Cork city for €250,000?
Try No 29 Convent Road, a mansard roofed, three-bedroomed property with feature exposed stone walls, and with gardens front and rear, plus parking.
Effectively re-built in 1991 and amalgamated from two old cottages, it is located just off the village and near the pier, which has its own farmers’ market every Saturday morning with the Cafe at the Castle also as a local restaurant, waterfronting amenity walks, schools, etc, as well as Mahon Point and Douglas for shopping.
The house itself is in good condition and rooms sizes are way above average for this end of the market.
The living room is 14’ by 19’, the kitchen is a galley with good country pine units and then, there’s a living room and sunroom at the back too.
On the upper floor there are three good double rooms and a main bathroom and at the rear, good gardens and a shed. Attractive use has been made of natural stone, left exposed in some internal rooms like the dining area, the hall/staricase wall and more.
Selling agent for No 29 is Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy
VERDICT: Immediately catching the eye of house-hunters, this could be a good, reasonably priced buy for those who don’t fancy a semi in the suburbs.
€360,000
Sq m: 230 (2,500 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
THERE’s a long run of front facade to this Killard, Blarney bungalow — mainly thanks to its attached garage, which adds further to the existing scope of this 2,500sq ft four-bed home.
The mid to late 1900s build with its distinctive sloping front stone-clad chimney is just 10 minutes from Cork city, and is as easily reached from the Cloghroe direction as from Blackpool, and is on a well matured site, says selling agent Micheal Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy. He says the site is private behind, with front and back lawns, and internally this home has four bedrooms with one en-suite, two reception rooms, a kitchen/dining room, and has a recently added rear sun room, 16’ deep and 11’ wide with vaulted wood-panelled ceilings and French doors to the back garden and recently installed patio.
Overall condition is good, with oil heating and PVC wood-grain double glazing, and there’s two utility rooms. The front area has a fountain/water-feature and deep patio separating the house from the lawn and there’s enough space for four or five cars. The garage has immediate conversion potential, and since the house was recently re-plumbed, it already has a radiator in situ, plus a gable window.
VERDICT: Great for a trading up family looking for space inside and out.
€360,000
Sq m: 149 (1,600 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
BRAND new to market this week, good to show and good to go is 23 East Avenue, in the well-settled and served Parkgate estate up in Frankfield, Douglas.
The detached four-bed home is just listed with agents Thomas J O’Driscoll & Co, who say it’s got pretty much everything a family looking to trade up might want.
So, three reception rooms, four bedrooms with an en suite (making for three loos in all), off-street parking and a fully walled-in back garden with shed and patio, just in need of some more colourful planting to bring it more fully to life.
The exterior is low-maintenance, with parking for a couple of cars on the drive, and internally, No 23 is just immaculate, says auctioneer Olivia O’Leary, with good fireplaces and the back-up of gas heating.
Parkgate has a good mix of house types, and the immediate area around Frankfield has a great range of shops, a new primary school, and both Douglas village and the south ring road are a short hop in a car.
VERDICT: A quality, affordable trading up detached home in a proven location makes No 23 one to look over.
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