Price reduction a Golden opportunity

It’s a house of two halves on Douglas Road, Cork, Tommy Barker reports

THERE’S a big — and sensible — price reduction now on 1, Golden Grove, a super-attractive Victorian home on Cork city’s main Douglas Road. It’s been taken down now to €550,00, from its June launch of €710,000 — and which even at the time seemed rich in the market-day realities.

It shows well, say selling agents Sherry FitzGerald, even in dreary December, and is in some ways a house of two halves — nicely traditional in front, with a deep drawing room perfect for Yuletide fires, while a more contemporary rear with a sun-room addition changes the house’s tone.

It’s a tasty 20’ by 11’ piece of working architecture, with vaulted ceiling and oak floor, in effect a comfortable garden room overlooking a small, but immaculately tended dog-leg of a private garden.

Elsewhere, original features have been kept, enhanced, original sash windows have working shutters, the hall floor has its old tiles polished up, and ceilings are high, with decorative plasterwork.

VERDICT: A lovely house, great location within a walk of the city and Douglas, with off-street parking for three/four cars.