A tidy sum for an immaculately kept modest-sized Bracken Court Cork city home

This three-bed semi-d, with a laid-out rear garden, is close to Cork’s Douglas and has a guide price of €190,000.

There’s a simple, easy and pleasing decor to 55 Bracken Court, a modest-sized three-bed semi-d by a green area in this Donnybrook, Cork setting.

Handily set near lots of Douglas amenities, it’s in immaculate condition upstairs and down, says auctioneer Paul O’Shea of Sherry FitzGerald, who guides at €90,000. Had it been much over the 1,000 sq ft size level, it could well be over the €200,000 price guide too, to match.

There’s a very fresh kitchen. with pale blue metro style tiles, white units, glossy timber tops and there’s garden access from the dining section of this 17’ by 10’ room, while the 13’ by 10’ front room has an open fireplace, with integrated solid fuel stove.

Overhead are three bedrooms, two doubles and a single and a main bathroom — all as homely and tidy upstairs, as down. It has a small porch entrance, gas heating, double glazing and off-street parking and gated side access to a laid out rear garden, with patio, gravel, raised decking, and fence screening, plus raised beds and some mature trees.

The front garden has a strip of lawn by a parking space, and the house faces a green— so owners can ‘borrow’ sights of greenery, without needing much more than a shears to trim their own grass.

Also for sale with the same Sherry FitzGerald agent within the same Bracken Court estate is No 151, which carries a €175,000 guide.

VERDICT: There’s extra care and thought gone into making No 55 a cosy home.

Donnybrook, Cork €190,000

Sq m:80 (870 sq ft)

Bedrooms: £

Bathrooms: 1

BER rating: C2