A tasteful treat

Ardgroom is an updated classic and elegant home in a perennially popular location, writes Tommy Barker

Bearing the name of a village on Cork’s Beara Peninsula is Ardgroom, a period-style semi-detached suburban city home. And, according to its selling agent Andrew Donoghue of Casey and Kingston, it is one of the best of the main Douglas Road’s older housing stock with “elegance, taste and exceptional attention to detail”.

Ardgroom also has the more modern trappings of increased insulation and a new condenser boiler, it has been underpinned and drains have been replaced, so it will stand up well for another clutch of decades. Now, the 1,800 sq ft house appears to have the best of old and new, plus location, in spades, as well as a very pleasant back garden, with its horticultural credentials signalled from the outset, with an eye-catching timber pergola spanning the front gates.