Trading up: Midleton, Co Cork €250,000

Sq m: 155 (1,670 sq ft)

It could truthfully be said Castlerock estate houses built by Castlelands Construction towards the end of the boom were some of the best specified houses in Cork county.

The four bed, three-storey type, one of which CCM Auctioneers, Midleton, are offering for sale, was very impressive of its type. Extras like limestone sills and facings, underfloor and zoned heating systems, high quality joinery and ironmongery and kitchen fittings and a generosity of space were the hallmarks of builder John Barry’s style.

And they were being sold for considerably more that the €250,000 now being asked for 5, The Mews, Castlerock, Midleton. A type C house, it’s just off the Cork Road roundabout and offers four bedrooms and good living space. The ground floor has an interconnecting sitting and dining room, with kitchen and a separate utility and guest bathroom off the hallway.

Overhead are four bedrooms over two floors, including a master suite, with dressing room, a family bathroom and second bedroom with dressing room. In addition to the standard fit, this house has a central vacuum system, Roca bathroom ware with whirlpool bath and solid wood floors on two levels.

VERDICT: A very luxe house that offers lots more than the average.