Rochestown’s Kilcrenagh House on market for €585,000
THERE have been at least eight house sales in Cork’s Rochestown already this year at over the €500,000 mark (plus one at an even €1m,) and the city’s top-end house market has seen the first of several expected €1-2m properties come to market in these summer months, kicked off by Rochestown’s super €1.45m Ben Truda which featured here three weeks ago.
Now, the selling agents of Ben Truda, Cohalan Downing, have a more ‘affordable’ option for those keen on locating in Rochestown, set up beyond the monastery and highly regarded boys’ secondary school.
Even though Rochestown’s Kilcrenagh House is only 15 years old, give or take, it feels far fresher inside – thanks, in the main, to a significant upgrade undertaken by its owners in 2011.
The detached 1,800 sq ft family home is a one-off, with four bedrooms, on an accommodating site of 0.6 of an acre, enough room for kids and pets and cars – and further development even, or extension, should a new owner feel the need.
It was last for sale back in July 2010, then guided at €565,000, and changed hands for under €500,000 during ’11, and then it got a whole lot of extra spending and improvements in its current family owners’ hands.
It comes now for sale once more, listed at €585,000 with agents Malcolm Tyrrell and Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing, who say the accessible yet rural location just above the monastery in upper Rochestown is “sought-after, just a five kilometre drive from Douglas village and easily reached off the city’s ring road network too.”
A very recent adjacent sale is Villa Sol, a sprawling 1980s home on 1.5 acres with indoor swimming pool, finally ‘Villa Sold,’ after being on and off the market for almost a decade.
Villa Sol first went to market for its German owners in 2006, guiding €2.5m, this was reduced to €850,000 by 2011, and now is on the Price Register as a 2015 sale, at €670,000.
Kilcrenagh, by contrast, is a more traditional home: it’s a four-square sort of two-storey house with part-dormer windows on the upper level, brick faced and with plenty of site all around, and as well as getting a house upgrade, the garden also got a lot of attention and some spending in the half-decade, with south-facing rear grounds, all set behind electric gates with video control.
“It was significantly upgraded in 2011, it’s a quality home now, is in superb condition throughout,” add the agents, instancing re-laid floors including Burmese teak in the 21’ long hall, as well as the new kitchen, the redone bathrooms with Grohe rainfall showers, new boiler, etc: and it gets decent C1 BER too.
Kilcrenagh has interlinked reception rooms, done in engineered oak, with living room next to a double-aspect dining room which has a bay window with seat for garden views, and the dining space also links easily to the kitchen for a comfortable flow of rooms.
In addition, there’s a separate lounge/family room, plus utility and guest WC.
The kitchen is 18’ by 10’ with white units, has a red tiled splashback for contrast, and it has a six-ring Waterford double oven (gas-fuelled) and other Smeg appliances.
Overhead one of the four bedrooms (the largest, at 18’ by 11’) is en suite.
Rochestown is back notching up strong mid- and upper-level house sales.
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