Trading up: Maryborough Hill, Douglas, €350,000

A great double site is a bonus with this adaptable bungalow home, with its double-digit address, in Cork’s outer suburban Maryborough Hill, above Douglas.

Now a couple of decades old, No 24-25 Maryborough Court is a well-kept home, ideal for a range of buyers: its double site is its best asset for many, who’ll relish the sheer amount of outdoor space, its brick paved patios and its sun traps, and its existing landscaping and planting, with lots of fragrant roses.

The gardens, sloped up to banks of shrubs and mature boundaries at the back, include a glasshouse and a timber shed.

Its selling agent is John D Sullivan, he has a family connection to the 1,430 sq ft house and he seeks offers around €350,000 for the special No 24-25, which has one of its three bedrooms en suite, and with French doors for patio access.

With decent sized rooms and hall, and a linked kitchen/dining room, it has off-street parking, gas central heating, and a quiet location deep within Maryborough Court.

The setting is close to Douglas Golf Club, and No 24-25 has its large gardens almost backing onto the grounds of the upmarket Elden apartment complex.

Douglas village is a short spin, or a hilly walk away, and there’s also access nearby to the south city ring road/Slí Carrig Donn.

VERDICT: Low-key estate living, in a quiet enclave, and with double servings of gardens to delight the green-fingered. As good for families as it is for the active retired, perhaps?