Trading up: Skibbereen, Cork €235,000

Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

The Baltimore Road is sort of Skibbereen’s Ballsbridge, home to some of the West Cork town’s best-selling homes and tapping into that niche appeal was the 20-house development Abhainn Beag, built to a Victorian design template back in the mid 2000s.

Now, the immaculate three-storey semi-d, No 14 is a re-sale, with a classic interior finish in keeping with the era the design aspires to.

Punching in at about 1,500 sq ft, and with two bedrooms on each of its two upper floors, it has had a slight price reduction confirmed by its joint selling agents Charles P McCarthy and Andy Donoghue of Hodnett Forde, who seek offers about €235,000.

It’s in a corner site in the scheme, a walk-in job, within a short walk of the town’s shops and services too, while Baltimore’s just a few miles out the road for water sports and further entertainment, they add.

No 14 has an elegant front sitting room with white marble fireplace, a rear 20’ by 14’ kitchen/dining room with units in beech, a ground floor loo, but no utility.

Next floor up is a master bed en suite, second bedroom and family bathroom and the top attic level has two more bedrooms plus shower room.

VERDICT: A very good Skibbereen townhouse, with patio gardens only.