Trading up
130 (1,400 sq ft)
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There aren’t too many houses with lifebelts hanging up on a back garden shed wall, but that’s that case at Rose Briar.
It’s a bungalow on a sloping site along Cork’s main Rochestown Road, with a quarter acre site that slopes north to the Douglas estuary, with water frontage, and wide vistas.
This stretch of road, between the church and Rochestown proper, has been home to a wide selection of house types down the years, but as time moves on, more and more get upgraded, or get sites hived-off and built upon for quite special one-off waterfront homes.
Rose Briar is a perfectly fine, older era detached bungalow of 1,400 sq ft, but its best asset is the location, site and setting. It’s for sale for 390,000 via agent John Barry of Frank V Murphy & Co, who says it dates to the 1940s, while his vendors have been here about 30 years of its life.
It’s due a bit of a revamp now, such as new bathroom(s), kitchen and decor, he admits, and some viewers will have more ambitious further spending plans perhaps given the site — there’s scope to go up into the attic, subject to planning. Right now, it’s got a 24’ by 15’ main living room, sun room, three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, and 300 sq ft garage.
Huge scope.
362 (3,900 sq ft)
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This Ballycotton bungalow is big and bold on all fronts — it even has a triple-sized site. Originally intended to be on one acre, it later had a second, and then a third acre added, so now it’s an impressive 3,900 sq ft, on three landscaped acres with sea views.
And, not only is it spacious, it feels even bigger, as the rooms here are all on the large size, a touch of the American ranch home about it, perhaps, with airy, high and beamed vaulted ceilings a distinctive feature, as well as high-end fittings and features.
Located at Ballytrasna, it was built in 1999 by the current owner who returned from the US to live locally and who specialises in building and refurbishing one-off homes like this. Special features include both solar and geothermal heat sources, underfloor heating under thick, large terracotta tiles, four patios and sea views from front and back, a summer house with hot-tub, pressurised water system and power showers, as well as pitch pine joinery.
Selling agent is Barry Nagle of Global Properties, who guides this Ballytrasna buy, a kilometre from Ballycotton, and with views to Garryvoe, at 625,000. He says the current enquiries and first viewings have being from Irish returning from abroad, or those relocating from Dublin.
Rooms include a 28’ by 17’ sitting room, kitchen with Aga and island, large dining room, breakfast room and it has three of its four bedrooms en suite.
A one-off, well above spec, with good woods, and a large coastal site.
125 (1,350 sq ft)
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C3
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It looks like there’s been a full modernising makeover to this four-bed Carrignavar bungalow, a 15 minute commute from Cork City at a townland quaintly called Gortnalahee.
Built on a level, well minded quarter acre site, the detached single storey home (with two en suites) has over 1,300 sq ft, lots of upgrades, all for a 290,000 AMV quoted by Terry Hayes of REMAX.
It has got good modern double glazing, a rear sun room extension and off it is a new kitchen with glossy timber worktops and checkered black and white tiled splashbacks.
Bathrooms have been upgraded, and floors are a mix of solid wood and porcelain in the hall, while the main 24’ by 12’ now has a solid fuel/wood-burning stove as a cosy bonus.
Decor is all fresh, calm and modern, lovingly done by the owners over the last few years, says REMAX’s Mr Hayes, who adds that there’s parking, a south-facing rear with patio and sun room overlooking landscaped gardens, and two of the four bedrooms are en suite (all three bathrooms have showers), plus the private garden has two block-build sheds.
This Gortnalahee bungalow home has moved with times.
158 (1,700 sq ft)
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C3
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There’s not too much available in the five-bedroomed sized stakes in Cork City’s western suburbs, and that fact alone will bring viewing interest from families needing to trade up to 24, The Crescent.
The detached 1,700 sq ft home is just past Westgate and off the Curraheen Road beyond the old Dunnes Stores, so schools are nearby as well, along with leisure facilities, colleges and major employers like the CUH.
24 The Crescent not only fits on the size and bedrooms bill, but it’s a very well-kept detached home as well, inside and out, with mature easy-keep gardens, sun patio and a cul de sac setting by a green. So, a whole lot of boxes ticked, guided at 485,000 via agent Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald.
There are reception rooms left and right of the hall, and a 24’ by 11’ kitchen/dining room with utility behind. Upstairs one of the five (modest-sized) bedrooms is en suite and the main bathroom has a double shower. Gardens are pretty much lawn-free, with a big patio crying out for a sun-room extension.
A Bishopstown box-ticker.
Clonakilty, Co Cork, €225,000
157 (1,680 sq ft)
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There’s a surprising amount of space and surprise at No 1 Clogheen Grove, a smartly-designed semi-d in West Cork’s Clonakilty.
Built within the last decade just south-west of the town, and within a few walks of its many shops, bars restaurant and cinema it’s a semi-d joined to its neighbour by a side garage, so there’s a bit or remove and privacy from the adjoining ‘other half’. The garage also gives conversion potential, in a manner similar to what the neighbours have done.
Internally, No 1 is already a decent-sized four-bed home, with two of its bedrooms en suite, making use of the space over the garage and with dormer windows.
Rooms include front formal room, rear kitchen/diner, utility and guest WC, with scope for a family room, TV room or play room in the garage.
Selling agent Ernest Forde of Hodnett Forde, guides the well-kept No 1 at 225,000, and it has off-street parking to the front with small lawn, and a larger well-enclosed back garden.
On the edge of the popular and commutable West Cork town, No 1 is modern, has good array of bathrooms and has oil heating.
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