You’ll feel high and mighty at Spy Hill home in Cobh

VIEWS and space are the main attractions of 2 West End, a semi-detached Victorian property located up on Spy Hill above the town of Cobh. 

Spy Hill, Cobh €475,000

Sq m 371 sq m (4,000 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 5

Bathrooms: 5 (2 unfinished)

BER: Exempt

The views are of the sea, Cork harbour, passing cruise liners and Haulbowline Island. The space, following construction of two extensions stretches to a very large 4,000 sq ft.

The original part of the house offers well-maintained accommodation with period features and ornate plasterwork.

The current owners have recently added on a 1,000 sq ft two storey extension but haven’t yet fitted out some of the rooms.

Out front with harbour views are two south facing reception rooms, one tiled and one timber floored and beyond them is a small galley kitchen.

To the rear is a spacious 27’ by 14’ shell of a room which was meant to be the new kitchen.

There’s also a cloakroom, a utility room, a storeroom and a tiled but unfinished bathroom. In an older extension built some years ago at the rear there’s a sitting room and a bedroom with an en suite.

Upstairs in the original part of the house there is a bathroom with a claw foot bath and three bedrooms. Facing south over the harbour the master bedroom has an en suite and a walk in wardrobe.

In the recent first floor extension over the kitchen, there’s a sitting room, a bedroom and an unfinished bathroom.

This section of the house can be accessed from the house or separately from the rear since the owners planned to add a kitchenette and make this a self contained unit.

Built in 1850 the house has gas heating, double glazed windows and is BER exempt. Recently reduced from €500,000 to €475,000, it is on the books of both Joanna Murphy Estate Agents and Dooley and Howard auctioneers.

VERDICT: Ms Murphy reckons the house has some of the best views in Cobh “with charm and potential, and just a five minute stroll from town”.