Trading up: Rochestown, Cork €255,000

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Views down over Cork harbour, by the Douglas and Mahon estuary, come gratis with this three-bed McInerney-built home at 10 Manor Gardens.

Part of the popular Thornbury scheme in Cork’s Rochestown, the 1,100 sq ft three-bed is for sale with Paul O’Driscoll and Olivia O’Leary of Thos J O’Driscoll, with a €255,000 asking price quoted.

That’s just above the €245,000 asking price reported in these pages last week on 25 Manor Orchard, in the same overall residential scheme, but here at No 10 Manor Gardens, upgrading work has been done, and it has an improved, C3 BER as a result, with double glazing now fitted.

All three bedrooms are doubles, stress the agents, who say it’s in very good condition, with an immaculate west-facing private back garden with patio, and the views to the estuary are a bonus.

There are interlinked reception rooms front and back each with fireplaces, and there’s access to the kitchen (with oak units) from the rear family room.

VERDICT: Great mix of all age families now in the 1980s-built Thornbury, close to amenities by Mount Oval on Clarkes Hill, and a short drive to the south ring road too.