Trading up: Maryborough Hill, Cork Guide price: €275,000

Size: 130sq m (1,400sq ft)

There’s kerb appeal with these detached houses at Maryborough Heights — plus a pleasant surprise inside as well, with a main living room far bigger than you’ll find in most homes of this era.

New to market in this early 1980s residential setting above Douglas, Cork, is the four-bed 1,400sq ft home called Cois Coillte, which indeed has a sort of green, tree-ed valley view to the back across Slí Carrig Donn, towards Mount Oval.

Reached via Lissadell, it’s for sale with Jeremy Murphy Associates with a €275,000 guide. This house’s best design/layout feature is its principal reception room, running front to back, about 25ft deep, with shallow bay window in front. There’s a second set of sliding doors from the rear L-shaped kitchen/dining room, and this very usable floor plan also sees a second smaller reception/study, and a guest WC.

Upstairs, Cois Coillte has four bedrooms with one en suite, plus main family bathroom. The house comes with gardens front and back, off-street parking, oil heating with a boiler in the back garden, and has replacement pvc double glazed windows, where the owners eschewed the small ‘mock’ Georgian panes, and a result the house looks the more crisp and modern for it.

VERDICT: Good overall condition for its vintage, and good living room.