Trading up: Hawkes Rd, Bishopstown €365,000

Unprepossessing enough from the front, the detached four-bed home No 16 St Joseph’s Lawn, off Hawkes Road in Bishopstown, Cork, is well worth a look, says estate agent Timothy Sullivan.

Size: 134sq m (1,440sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 2 

Bedrooms: 4 

BER: E2

Not only has it a lovely cul de sac setting in the very heart of Bishopstown, but its back garden is very well sized, and it faces south.

So, noses twitching? Come see if he’s right. Mr Sullivan guides the 1,440 sq ft two-storey house at €365,000, a grand for every day of the year effectively: not counting this as a Leap Year.

The mid 1900s home is more of less of its era and age inside, well kept but dated, and has a patio access from its main sitting room, one of two/three reception rooms.

There’s a kitchen/breakfast room, linked by an arch to a family room/lounge, plus cloakroom/guest WC.

There’s also an attached garage, so scope and temptation to start thinking of extension, maybe. Two-storey, anyone?

It also has an external utility, patio and a back garden’s that superb, with favourable aspect and patio, say Mr Sullivan.

VERDICT: Great setting, between the two Bishopstown Dunnes Stores’, and near colleges and hospitals, as well as the ring road.