House of the week

The extra features worth noting on Riverwood House, in Cork’s Glanmire, run to about the same word count as you’d find in an entire descriptive sales brochure for a standard property — there’s so much extra on offer here.

Set high, and dry, on the hills above Glanmire valley at Glynntown in a niche of individual detached homes, Riverwood House is fresh to market with agent Michael Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy, guided at €550,000, and he says it is in showhouse, turn-key, order.

Only recently finished off, it’s as good as ‘just out of the box;’ in looks terms, it’s quite classic and symmetrical to the front, almost dolls’ house-ish, and is a little bit more contemporary behind where there’s a glass screened balcony off a bedroom, and a long, high-ceilinged and high-end kitchen extension, airy to match the feel of the double height entrance hall.