Trading up: Crosshaven, Cork €345,000

Want to go roaming around Crosshaven for a rewarding house project? This detached house called Dromainn could fit the bill, if you are prepared to do basic enough upgrades.

New to market on St Philomena’s Road, up above the former Grand Hotel and new coastguard station, is this 1960s-built four-bed home on a mature cul de sac road, where at least one other house is getting a full rebuild and upgrade.

The very next door home to Dromainn, possibly originally Edwardian, has already completed a very significant extension and renovation.The location, with Owenabue estuary and Currabinny views, justifies it.

Dromainn is guided at €345,000 by Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing, and while it has good bones, it needs warming up, insulating, double glazing, kitchen, etc, all on top of the purchase price, so viewers will have to factor in another chunk of spending once bought.

On a sloping site, southerly to the back, it has already had some flat-roofed extensions in previous decades, has an attached garage with more scope, linked front to back living room/study, second reception, kitchen and ground floor shower wet-room/WC.

The tiered gardens are lovely, with some old lichen-covered apple trees, and the house’s render/brick facade sort of doffs a cap to the 1960s, with a concrete plinth running across part of the front, entrance door and tall stairs window.

VERDICT: A manageable project in coastal Crosser.