Lots of interest in terrace house

Victoria Avenue, Cork Cost: €275,000

Done up by an architect-owner, now living in Dublin, the terraced home Lyndhurst is meeting with swift viewing approval: after just a week or two on the market, it’s already under offer.

Apart from location, within a walk of Cork city centre, the fact it’s an all done-up seems to be the key. Estate agent Fiona Waldron of Jeremy Murphy Associates guides the four-bed at €275,000 and it stood at €260k in offers in recent days; of the four swift bidders, three are first time buyers.

Located between the Boreenmanna Road and Old Blackrock Road, these houses have huge, long back gardens, not wide, but stretching back to an old stone boundary wall of with an overgrown acre or two beyond (see story p2).

There’s been two other sales on Victoria Avenue earlier this year, each making about €220/230,000, but those houses needed varying amounts of work. Here, it’s all been re-done by it savvy owner/architect, from a new roof down. It has smart metro-style tiling in the revamped all-white bathroom with free-standing cast-iron bath and separate shower, and the same tiles are in white-glossed kitchen.

As it has rooms on three levels, this mid-terraced period home manages to fit in over 1,300 sq ft, and four bedrooms (two per upper floor), with the bathroom on the first floor return, over the kitchen. Other than that, it has two rooms per floor, front and back, and at ground level they interconnect (with parquet flooring), from front bay window to rear patio door, and several rooms have kept original cast iron fireplaces.

VERDICT: Viewers who love the look have the option of buying some of the G-plan style furniture as well.