Moving on
Location: off Model Farm Road
Price: €295,000
Size: Sq m 121 (1,290 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: Pending
A HOUSE for a family looking to trade into Cork city’s settled western suburbs, Oakdene, at 12 Woodlawn off the Model Farm Road, is a box-ticking package.
Overlooking a green, and with a south-facing back garden, the mid-1900s home is in good overall condition, say Sherry FitzGerald, adding “it’s a lovely three bedroom semi detached home, in one of Cork’s most sought-after addresses, near Dennehy’s Cross Church.”
There’s a good, stepped or two-section rear dining/family room, with garden aspect and access, and behind the attached garage is the kitchen, with a guest WC/utility in between. The garage is easily convertible to extra living space, once it meets planning guidelines.
VERDICT: A great setting for the price.
Location: Beaumont, Cork
Price: €350,000
Size: Sq m 114 (1,220 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 3
BER rating: Pending
THE large gardens are pristine at this three-bed bungalow in Cork’s Beaumont suburb, nicely-set on Dundanion Road.
The house, new to market, needs some renovations and upgrades, but has a heck of a lot going for it. It’s detached, on a tended site of a quarter of an acre, which is good going for a suburban plot, and includes a detached garage, 27’ long and 11’ wide, which is currently used as a utility room, and plumbed for doing the laundry.
The main house has two reception rooms, plus conservatory, three bedrooms, main bathroom, and a simple kitchen.
Estate agent Michael O’Donoghue of O’Donoghue Clarke says Marsala is highly extendable, and will repay any investment.
VERDICT: Gardens are a bonus.
Location: Midleton, Cork
Price: €450,000
Size: Sq. m 280 (3,000 sq.ft.)
Bedrooms: 5
BER rating: Pending
BIG, on three-quarter of an acre, Kilbree Lodge five miles from east Cork’s Midleton is a family home to sprawl out in.
New to market with agents Hegarty Properties, the 3,000 sq ft home has most of that space at ground level, with the master bedroom fairly aloof aloft, with en suite bathroom, walk-in wardrobe, adjoining den/bed 5.
The agents stress the level of finishes and good timbers used inside, from maple to pippi oak, and rooms also include a 16’ by 15’ sitting room, dining room with wood-burning stove and French doors to the gardens, an office/study, kitchen, lounge, utility, guest loo and three ground-floor bedrooms, one en suite.
VERDICT: The best of country life in a modern home package.
Location West Cork
Price: €395,000
Size: Sq. m 184 (2,000 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: B2
BRING a boat if you are keen on Glór na Mara, a modern house build in a spectacular setting west of Skibbereen and Baltimore in west Cork. Not being interested in the sea would be a waste of some of the attributes of this 2,000 sq ft four-bed home, built 500 metres from Turk Head pier, where a mooring is available.
Selling agent Pat Maguire in Skibbereen seven miles away notes the layout facilitates coastal and Ilen River views, as well as Hare Island with the main living area up at first floor level, but handily accessed by way of an upper level entry point on the side gable.
The stone-faced quality home is cut into a sloping site of two acres.
VERDICT: Calling all mariners, retirees and seekers of the Good Life.
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