Think extension at Curragh Woods

With a prime location this semi-d has plenty of potential, Tommy Barker reports

AN extra large garden gives room to enjoy the outdoors on fine days, as well as yielding extension and hobby/workshed potential at the three-bed home 148 Curragh Woods.

Set in Frankfield, beyond Douglas in Cork and near the Kinsale Road roundabout, this modern semi-d is to the back of the O’Flynn Construction scheme, and faces a green. The setting is nice and quiet, stresses agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald guiding the buy which is just shy of 1,000 sq ft at €220,000.

Unusually, most of its ground floor is tiled with the same dark grey tile featuring in the 15’ by 11’ front sitting room (with white marble fireplace plumbed for gas), as well as in the rear 18’ by 10’ kitchen/dining room. The ground floor is plumbed for a guest loo, but currently the understairs space for it is used for storage instead, while overhead there are two shower rooms, one with the main en suite bedroom. Location is very handy for both Douglas’s amenities, shops in Grange, and the proximity of the south city ring road opens up routes to the western suburbs on the one hand and the Lee tunnel in the opposite direction.

VERDICT: No 148’s trump card is its deep site, with side and walled back garden.