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.