Fort Hill house is light bright and easy to keep for fresh owners

This is a simple, feelgood home for starters or traders down, writes Tommy Barker.

Described by its selling agents as a starter home, the three-bed semi-d at 13 Fort Hill could be more than that - it’s a nice, bright and easy to keep home in a good location, with a useful back garden too.

Fort Hill is towards the back of Cork’s Rochestown and Maryborough Hill, a scheme done in the early 2000s by Bantry builders Murnane and O’Shea, distinguished from the usual run of semis by the flat-topped dormers on the front facade, above the deep living room bay window.

Internally, layout is fairly standard, with a 13’ by 11’ living room with bay window and fireplace, the kitchen/diner behind is full-width at 20’ by 12’ with utility off and guest WC behind that again.

Upstairs meanwhile, bedroom sizes drop down a bit, and the rear bedroom with Velux window has an en suite.

Externally, the front drive is all paved, and there’s side gate access to the back garden which makes the most of its space, with a decked area, small lawn, perimeter planting and a gravel path to a garden shed.

Selling agent is Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, guiding lucky-for-some No 13 at €230,000, and pointing to its proximity to Douglas village and Rochestown.

VERDICT: A simple feel-good home for starters, or traders down.