Gate Lodge home has lots of appeal

No 68 is in smart, move-in condition with four bedrooms, Tommy Barker reports

THERE’s a good deal on offer at 68 Gate Lodge, out beyond Blackrock Castle in Cork, with a bracing, peninsular perimeter walk around this inner harbour spot. No 68 is one of the better value market offerings in this popular O’Brien and O’Flynn scheme, with attention paid by the owners to every part internally, as well as the back garden and on, up into the attic also.So says agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, seeking €235,000 for the 1,250 sq ft end-of-terrace house in a good spot, and with southerly aspected back garden, set near the far end of the sizeable Gate Lodge scheme.

It fits a lot in: two reception rooms, interlinked by double doors, front to back, plus a 19’ deep by 8’ wide kitchen/dining room with terracotta-tiled floor. Hall tiles are sort of retro-look, polychrome mix like you’d see in Victorian hallways.