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Sq m: 134 (1,450 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
THINK Calderwood in Cork’s Donnybrook up above Douglas and you’d be inclined to think of semi-detacheds dating back to the 1970s, one of the very earliest Owen O’Callaghan residential developments.
Well, 1 Calderwood Road is very different, even if it seems to share the same grey brick with the semis built close to it. It’s detached, it’s a bungalow, and the site is sizeable, calculated at one third of an acre by estate agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald.
She guides the well-kept home which has had recent investment in it at €260,000, and that’s for a good-size 1,450 sq ft four-bed, with one en suite bedroom. It has a conservatory with a southerly aspect off one of the other bedroom — an unusual approach/access, but a breakfast-spot bonus for the room occupants once they don’t mind the odd bit of through-traffic.
There are also two reception rooms, each a good enough size, plus kitchen/dining room, with newly-fitted white gloss units, and utility with guest WC.
“It’s a lovely bright house, with plenty of space, it’s good value at the price, with very private, mature and sunny gardens,” says Ms O’Mahony.
VERDICT: The site size is almost that of a country bungalow, yet the location is handy suburban, a short walk to Douglas.
Sq m: 299 (3,200 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 6
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
BUILT by a man who spent years building in the US, this Gallanes, Rosscarbery, West Cork home has the best of both sides of the Atlantic to it.
There’s an openness and airiness typical of American homes, with luxury to match, says estate agent Ray O’Neill of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill in nearby Clonakilty, seeking offers around €445,000 for the 3,200 sq ft dormer on an acre, complete with lofted garage, productive glass house and fruit and vegetable garden as well as lawns.
It is all in excellent order, says Mr O’Neill, with some very high quality joinery work, built-ins in rich hued timbers, and large living spaces, most with extra-high ceilings.
It is all very adaptable, especially as there are quality en suite bedrooms at both ground and first floor levels.
Location is strong, just over an hour from Cork city, and a mile from Rosscarbery, off the road to Glandore, with beaches and amenities to hand. Selling agent Ray O’Neill says the west Cork property market probably performed more strongly than most others in 2011, with buyers from home, Britain and Continental Europe, including Germany.
VERDICT: An impressive property package on an acre, with a well-built and very well-kept home done to an above average standard, inside and out.
Sq m: 154 (1,650 sq ft)
Bedrooms:4
BER rating: D1
Broadband: Yes
A GOOD sized, family home, with loads of work done to it, in a good location, with decent living space — that’s 3 Lislee Road in a nutshell.
The four-bed semi-detached family home by the foot of Maryborough Hill in Cork’s Douglas weighs in at 1,650 sq ft, and that’s excluding a spacious, plumbed converted attic for storage with over 200 sq ft of space, with Velux and permanent staircase.
And, it is all on offer for €355,000 via agent Dennis Guerin of Frank V Murphy & Co, who says it fills the sort of demand currently unmet in the city’s residential market. It comes to market in ready-to-move-into condition, contrasting with the same auctioneering firm’s just-agreed sale of a similar era semi in Endsleigh, inner Douglas. That one needed a lot of work, and made about €300,000.
In contrast, No 3 Lislee Road has a bay window extension to the front in the 17’ by 14’ sitting room, a good 20’ by 14’ kitchen extension in country style, with a feature side wall in brick, while the family/living room is also well-proportioned at 18’ by 12’.
Overhead are four bedrooms, and main family bathroom. There’s a cobble-lock front drive, small lawn and sunny southerly aspected back garden.
VERDICT: As semis of this era go, it’s as spacious as you’d want.
Sq m: 135 (1,450 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 2
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
THIS lodge-style period home has seen the good days, and the bad days and now, is half way back to good days once more.
Taken in hand some time ago by an architect who got stuck into its renovation and salvation, it is now a reasonably well-advanced refurbishment, with a game-plan presumably in place to its final finishing touches.
However, with a way to go, it comes to market with estate agent Timothy Sullivan, who guides the 1830’s dwelling on a quarter acre at Barnahely, Ringaskiddy at €180,000.
It was at one time part of a far larger estate, and while the land is shorn from it, nonetheless there’s a rural feel to the setting, says Mr Sullivan.
Although with only two bedrooms in the current configuration, he says the 1,450 sq ft two-storey home (dormer seems too modern a description for it) is deceptively spacious, and has some magnificent older style features — but excluding age-appropriate sash windows, the current ones are in PVC.
This is a project opportunity rarely available in locations like this, he adds.
VERDICT: There are period features in a manageable size dwelling, with some outbuildings as well on the site, all with a 20-minute commute or so of Cork city.
Sq m: 165 (1,800 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 5
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
COMING for sale hot on the heels of a successful sale agreed up the road of a fully refurbished red-brick period home at 4 Limerick’s Munster Terrace (making less than its €495,000 guide) comes another similar era offering with O’Connor Murphy Gubbins.
Just listed in the last few weeks is the refurbished mid-terrace house No 5 Swanson Terrace, on O’Connell Avenue, Limerick. Agents OMG guide it at €320,000, and say it has several options for two categories of buyers, as its ground level is laid out as a self-contained apartment, with kitchen, living room and bedroom and bathroom.
Overhead are options for first and second floor bedrooms or livingrooms, it’s all very adaptable, and easily switched back to private family use, say the selling agents, noting that period-era features such as original fireplaces have been retained. The lower level is self-contained, but the staircase can be opened back up very simply too.
So, No 5 could have an investor appeal, or appeal to a family, especially one who needs distinct accommodation options, for independent yet live-at-home adults, or older relatives.
It’s a five minute walk to the city centre, and there’s a rear garden/courtyard, with garage.
VERDICT: Already upgraded, this is a city period offering with options.
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