Monkstown home has excellent interiors and top-of-the-range technologies

A price drop on the very well-finished Monkstown, Cork harbour home, 5 De Vesci Place should put it back on the radar of house hunters, and with a wider band of bidders also.

Monkstown, Cork €295,000

Size: 139 sq m (1,500 sq ft

Bedroom: 3

Bathrooms: 2

BER: B3

After a change of agent, the mid-terraced 1,500 sq ft No 5 is now down from last April’s launch of €360,000, and is instead repriced at €295,000 by Florence Gabriel and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald.

Very well upgraded in 2010/2011, the three-storey house on a hill made our House of the Week slot a year ago, as it had excellent interiors, quality finishes, retained period features, and modern technologies like CAT 6 data cabling, CCTV, surround sound and LED and CFL lamps, combining to all give this period pad a most uncommon B3 BER.

The address comes from the harbour communities links to the De Vesci Estate of old, linked to the Vesey family who controlled 15,000 acres of land in Cork and Laois, and No 5 has its own quiet demeanour, entered on a middle level and with a lower ground level kitchen/dining living room full of character, with brick wallsand glass block walls.

The middle level has a family room to the back, linking to a wood-floored front living room with fireplace and a deep bay window for harbour views.

Overhead are three bedrooms, two singles and a double and a good bathroom with claw-foot bath and separate shower.

It has solar panels for water heating.

Parking’s on-street, with a walled-in, decked yard, with space for storage, sitting out and BBQs.