Mid-terrace home is rewired, reworked and ready to go

No 3 Parnell Terrace is a hassle-free home, Tommy Barker reports

Just bring your furniture and kitchen appliances, and you can consider yourself at home at 3 Parnell Terrace, on Cork’s southside suburbs — because the work here has all been done, boxes ticked, painted and shiny new.

The terrace is near the Pouladuff service station and the old Atlantic Homecare/Woodies, as well as the Lough and UCC, so there could be investor as well as owner-occupier interest.

Six months of builders and tradespeople traipsing through has passed and now the mid-terrace old red-brick has swollen to 820 sq ft, thanks to a decent and bright west-facing back extension.

Agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy guides at €150,000 for the well-finished article, with two en suite bedrooms upstairs, and a guest WC off the back kitchen extension.

The ground floor is pretty much open plan, with double doors separating the front 13’ by 13’ living room from the back 20’ by 13’ kitchen/dining room with new units, and French doors and a side window overlooking the neat patio and fenced-in back garden. Helping keep a bit of maturity with such modernity inside is the retention of an old tree in the middle of the lawn — a perfect foil or frame for some funky outdoor lighting.

VERDICT: A ready to go option, rewired, new heating, insulation and double glazing, within a walk of the city centre, the Lough and UCC.