Trading up: Frankfield, Cork €279,000

Attic rooms have been created at 11 Frankfield, a detached early 1980s bungalow on a corner site, within a long-settled development up by Frankfield Golf Club, on the hills fringing Cork city and Douglas.

Excluding the two attic rooms and an upstairs shower room, No 11’s a three-bed home with one just-upgraded en suite with over-sized shower.

It is priced at €279,000 by agents Jeremy Murphy & Associates, who say the Frankfield location near the Kinsale Road roundabout is excellent, it’s also over the hills back around to Douglas, and has west-facing gardens, plus off-street parking for several cars.

Set at the back of one of the Frankfield estate’s cul de sacs, it has a long hall, large living room with double aspect, open fireplace and a new wood floor and an equally large kitchen/dining room with cream units, dresser style storage, extensively tiled splashbacks and quarry tile flooring.

A solid pine stairs lead to the two attic rooms, each with Velux windows, and there’s also a shower room up here.

The location is easily accessed, there’s a hillside golf course to hand, a new public park is finally coming on stream on the old municipal landfill site across the ring road, and the Grange road has both Aldi and SuperValu supermarkets, church, medical centre and a national school.

VERDICT: Well upgraded.