House of the week

CALLED after a Dutch river, Amstel is a c 80-year-old house, about to leave its third generation of family ownership — and has never looked so good.

The semi-detached house is in quiet Marble Hall Park, by the start of the Douglas and Ballinlough Roads, a 10 minute amble from Cork city centre.

It has been handed down through the women of the family, and now after a major overhaul in 2005/06 is ready to walk into by new owners. In its back-end of a cul de sac setting, Amstel comes for sale with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who guides it at €395,000, and that’s for a four-bed 1,800 sq ft home with, literally, everything done to it, and done well.