Trading Up: Rochestown, Cork €430,000

Mature, bedded down gardens with colour — even heading into winter months — are an indication of the care taken down the years at 44 Rochestown Rise.

No 44, also called Enfield perhaps after the town Enfield in Meath, the London borough, a gun or a motorbike, is a four-bed family home in this 1970s development, one of the earlier estates to colonise the outer reaches of the Rochestown Road.

Now with a well-minded interior, it has 1,400 sq ft which includes a front-to back 23’ deep drawing room with wood-burning stove inset into the fireplace, an upgraded kitchen/dining room with granite worktops on oak units and an arch to a living room/TV room, plus there’s a slender optional family room/fifth bedroom.

No 44 is guided at €430,000 by agents Florence Gabriel and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who describe it as both spacious and bright, with above-standard gardens, west-facing at the back with pond and patio, and all in a popular settled development (see also p2).

They say Enfield is an ideal trading up family home, with one en suite bedroom, and the option of a fifth at ground level, where there’s also a rear hall, utility and a guest WC.

VERDICT: Deep living room is well-sized, yet warm and homely, with garden access from patio doors.

Size: 130sq m (1,407sq ft)

Bathrooms: 3

Bedrooms: 4