Trading up: GRANGE, CORK €395,000

THERE are views back over Cork city from the upstairs of No 42 The Marlings, in Cork’s Grange Heights.

The 1970s-built wide 1,800 sq ft five-bed family home packs in good ground floor living space beyond its sheltered, car-port and has two of its three reception rooms interlinked by way of an arch and so feels open and airy.

The room sizes at the ground floor level are good, and two of the rooms have marble fireplaces supplementing the oil central heating, but the upper floor’s rooms are less generously sized.

At present, none of the five bedrooms is en suite, but there’s scope to convert a first floor study space to bathroom/dressing room use if needs be, say agents Frank V Murphy & Co, guiding the detached two storey home at a sub €400,000 sum, just €5k shy, in fact.

Location is good, in a quiet section at the back of Grange Heights, within a walk of Douglas village, while the Grange/Frankfield suburb has recently improved its amenity mix with good shops, a new school, and easy car and bus access.

VERDICT: No 42 has views from its lofty perch that lift it out of the normal suburban run. It also has a good lot of space for a trading up family to tackle.