VIDEO: House of the week: Rochestown, Cork €425,000
Now, the family is looking to trade up, hence No 20’s arrival on the market, guiding at €425,000 via agents Cohalan Downing.
It’s set towards the upper end of this 1970s estate, near the main Rochestown Road roundabout link to Cork’s ring road, and is within a good walk of Douglas village, and comes with about 1,520 sq ft of living space, with four bedrooms. The back garden backs up against mature woodland, so it feels nice and rooted to this rise on a Rochestown hill.
“It’s a real family home, the owners have three children and are here since they were a couple and the house has changed with the family’s growth. It’s got a lovely warm feel to it, but they feel they’ve taken it as far as they can go, and are ready to do up another home for themselves,” says estate agent Jackie Cohalan of Cohalan Downing.
She says there are some lovely touches to No 20, and that the vendors got some things especially made such as the double doors to the patio and BBQ, which were made with glazed side panels for an extra lift and more light and garden views too from the dining table.
The master bed’s en suite bathroom was redone just this summer, in cool greys and is a sort of contemporary match for the house’s reworked modern kitchen — though ne’er the twain shall meet.
The kitchen in this case comes from Cube, and is fitted with Miele appliances, wood-look cabinets and a mix of wall-mounted units and open shelving — open shelves and careful, curated displays of kitchen items seemingly are back in vogue.
There’s a porcelain tiled floor here in the kitchen, extending to the dining section, with those bespoke glazed double doors opening to the rear, east-facing patio and garden. This double function room is 27’ wide, across the back of the house, and 14’ deep, and off it via sliding doors which retreat into the walls (another good idea) is a sitting room running to the front of the house, with a white-glaze wood burning stove set into a plain hearth, flanked by logs.
The ground floor also has a 15’ by 7’ play room, left of the hall, and this room is carpeted, and a feature at its far end is a blue painted upright piano, for juvenile rhapsodies in blue.
Agents Jackie Cohalan and Brian Olden says No 20 is airy and spacious throughout, and over the years has been continually improved by the present owners, and now needs nothing else touched by any new owners (hence, possibly, the frustration and urge to do another full make-over by the departing occupants).
No 20 has four first floor bedrooms, one with en suite recently done in wall-to-ceiling grey tiles, with tiled floor, contemporary sanitary ware and a large corner power shower. In contrast, the main family bathroom has a bath with blue tiled tops by the basin and has a bath with gold taps.
And, in a slightly unusual twist, the laundry washing/drying appliances are also in the bathroom section, so no hauling of bed sheets and linen baskets up and down the stairs.
Outside, No 20 has a drive with parking for several cars in front, and the rear garden is landscaped, walled-in, mature with its woodland backdrop, and has a BBQ and curved patio in sandstone, reached off the dining room space.
“Rochestown Rise houses always sell very well, it’s a popular location, easily accessed off the main Rochestown Road and the ring road, while Douglas is just a walk away,” say the auctioneers.
Among their more recent Rochestown office sales was the superb Ben Truda, understood to have made well over its guide price to sell for an unconfirmed €1.6 million.
Houses vary a bit in size, style, level of upkeep and price in Rochestown Rise (see No 44 for sale also, p 4 overleaf) and the Price Register shows four house sales transacted in Rochestown Rise in 2014, at €356,000, €365,000, €430,000 and €435,000.
No 20 is guided at €425,000, but once viewings get going in earnest, it may very well go over that in bids.
A walk-in job on the Rise.
Sq m 142 (1,520 sq ft)
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