Old in Edwardian style with new feel in Model Farm Road, Cork

THERE’S A solid, repro Edwardian look to the houses at Hill Farm, out at Cork’s Model Farm Road. Now, one of the earlier builds, No 6 which dates to 2002, has come for sale on mature gardens, facing Hill Farm’s big green space.

Sat, 29 Aug, 2015 - 01:00

Tommy Barker

Model Farm Road, Cork €580,000

Sq m 233 (2,500 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 4

BER: C2

Guided at €580,000, it’s just shy of 2,500 sq ft over its lower two levels and is a four-bed, with two en suites plus dressing room in the master bedroom. Meanwhile, a floored attic with stairs gives more space and rooms potential up top.

Hill Farm got hit in mid-build by the downturn, and only got back in gear in the past two years; the Price Register shows a handful of sales in the section known as the Close in 2014 at €450,000 to €484,000.

Notably too for those watching prices (and, who isn’t?) very nearby, a one-off of 2,700 sq ft called Drakesbank, fronting the main Model Farm Road, has soared past a July 2015 launch price of €475,000, now headed north of €600k in current offers with Cohalan Downing, so underbidders there may well turn their eyes to Hill Farm’s No 6 as a consolation.

Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald says 6 Hill Farm still has a new home feel, despite being 13 years old, and comes with good bright and modern living space, plus it has scope for two more bedrooms, with en suite to share, at attic level.

Ms Healy says the brick and render-faced home with Tudorish-wood gable is a perfect home for a family in the western suburbs (the location is close to the Irish Guide Dogs Association), and while it looks promising from the outside, it really delivers on the inside and has to be viewed to be appreciated fully, she stresses.

Rooms include a lounge with gas fire insert, a bay window to the front, and French doors to the rear patio and garden, a TV room, kitchen/dining room with maple units, large hall, utility and guest loo.

There’s off-street parking on a large graveled front, and the back garden is walled-in, and landscaped.

VERDICT: Model setting for suburbs and Ballincollig