Trading Up
Inner and outer Kinsale harbour views, as well as glimpses up the River Bandon, come with the 1,500 sq ft bungalow home 9 Fort View — set in a development which has James Fort and Charles Fort views to boot.
The four-bed home is neat inside, on equally well-kept gardens on a corner quarter-acre site, and the house includes a conservatory addition, plus a detached self-contained granny flat.
Auctioneer Michael Piggott of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan Daly seeks offers around €495,000 for No 9. It has, he says, probably one of the best positions in Kinsale.
Fort View is near the Summercove national school, high above the harbour village by the Bullman, a couple of miles from Kinsale town by car, or via the scenic Scilly Walk.
No 9 has a smart 18’ by 13’ main reception room with triple aspect, including a big bay window for the views, there’s a good kitchen/breakfast area, with painted units, timber tops and quality quarry tile floor, off to the side is a sun-room/conservatory, with glass on three sides and a solid roof with recessed lighting. Then, there’s also there’s a family/TV room with open fireplace, main family bathroom and one of the four bedrooms has a shower room en suite.
VERDICT: Good to go
Sales are few and far between at Seven Oaks, a niche estate with a good residents’ association off the Frankfield Road, within a short trip of Douglas village and Cork city’s south ring road.
Estate agent Jeremy Murphy has the latest offer here after a lull of a year or two, and it is a three-bed semi-d, larger he says than the usual run of this type at nearly 1,300 sq ft, and it has a side room at ground level handy as an optional fourth bedroom, playroom, home-office or gym.
He guides it at €235,000, which is within reach of many first time buyers, or it’s also an very easy trading up option for smaller families wanting extra space, near a host of services, from schools and shops, to a golf course almost on the doorstep. There’s also a number of employment bases nearby.
A good size, and on a site with walled in back garden and off-street parking, No 38 has front and back reception rooms, that side room’s an extra, plus there’s a kitchen/dining area, utility and guest loo.
Overhead, one of the three bedrooms has a shower en suite, making for three loos in all.
VERDICT: Needing a bit of individuality now stamped on it by new owners, No 38 is a good house design in a very popular small development in a very accessible setting. It’s under early viewing too.
The pretty fishing village of Kilmore Quay in Wexford probably has more than its fair share of thatched properties, but they don’t come on the market that often.
For this reason Moylan’s Cottage, has been attracting good viewings since it went up for sale in recent weeks. Described by selling agents Kehoe & Associates as a real gem, it’s an authentic and charming two-storey cottage used as a family holiday home for a number of years.
“It’s been upgraded but has retained its character and is in super condition with double glazed windows at the front, single glazed at the back and oil fired central heating,’’ says auctioneer Bernie Farrell.
A key selling point is the location in the centre of the village within a short walk from the marina and the beach. Accommodation includes a living room with exposed beams, rough plaster walls and a huge unused inglenook fireplace, a kitchen with fitted units, granite worktops and a Belfast sink. A second sitting room has timber flooring, a granite fireplace and an antique bellows. The 920 sq ft property also has a shower room and a bedroom on the ground floor. Up a ladder stairs are two bedrooms and a bathroom.
VERDICT: A cute holiday home in a popular spot
A nice, square sized site and a pleasant four-bed home right on Cork city’s Model Farm Road at Bishopstown Park give the bungalow Carrigpeter a bit of an edge.
Fitting in almost 1,200 sq ft of space, the single storey home has location in spades — is super-convenient for families with school or college going children, as well as for traders down. And, with a price guide of €295,000 quoted by Dennis Guerin of Frank V Murphy & Co auctioneers, it’s possible some viewers will come along with grander notions and willing to spend a bit more money on this package, possibly even looking at adding another storey or a dormer level.
It’s all in quite good nick, with a homely but dated feel, with good essentials as well as bright rooms. In fact, it seems to have been built with sunnier summers in mind, as the three front bay windows have old sunscreen awnings still in situ, reinstated above the replacement pvc double glazing.
Other touches of moving with the times include oil central heating, and an alarm, but other than those reasonable adjustments, new occupants will want to add kitchen space — at present there’s a kitchenette about 9’ by 4’ by a breakfast room, and the best spaces are the two reception rooms, both with tiled fireplaces and bay windows, and one has a double aspect.
Two of the four bedrooms are doubles, and there’s a family bathroom also, plus garage to the side/rear by the house’s car entrance off Bishopstown Park at the city end of Model Farm Road, with Dennehy’s Cross’s new apartments visible a few hundred yards away.
VERDICT: Well-rooted, and ripe for renewal.
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