Trading up: Boreenmanna Road €580,000

THERE were only a handful of detached houses among the 65 new properties built at Belfield Abbey on Cork city’s Boreenmanna Road, and now one of the largest, and on the biggest site of all, is for sale with a €580,000 price quoted by Sherry FitzGerald.

It is one of three only, three-storey five-beds, with a little over 2,300 sq ft, and the offer includes three en suite bedrooms, two on the uppermost floor, and with a large master bed/en suite on the middle floor, stretching 24’ front to back of the house.

No 1 is fully finished, kitchen, tiling and more all’s done and the gardens have been landscaped, so all a new owner need do is furnish it, notes auctioneer Ann O’Mahony.

No 1 faces south, across the Boreenmanna Road to the Ballinlough Community Park, where there’s an active tennis club, and close to hand are schools and services, with the south link road half a mile or so to the west, and the city centre just past that again.

Design is by architects Hogan Associates, and they’ve given No 1/the Type A houses a great big ground floor plan, with living room and study to the front, behind is a kitchen, utility and dining area leading into a family room at the very back.

VERDICT: The efficiency of a new-build, in a settled suburb.

Sq m: 214 (2,310 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 5

BER rating: Pending

Broadband: Yes