Starter home: Grange, Cork €269,000

Tommy Barker reports on a family home in the Cork suburb of grange which has fantastic gardens with a lot of room to improve for an extension.

Size: 96 sq m (1,039 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 3

BER: C3

PRICED possibly now on its launch at the upper end of many first-time buyers price scale at €269,000 is the family home 9 Ardfield Lawn, up in Grange, above suburban Douglas in Cork.

And, right now, while the the three-bed semi-d is in very good order inside and outside, at just over 1,030 sq ft it’s a place that growing families in time might seek to extend.

Should that be the case, well, this will easily accommodate add-ons as it’s on an extra-sized corner site, with good south-west aspect, side and back gardens all landscaped and with off-street parking for a couple of cars in front.

Built by Fleming Construction, Grange’s Ardfield houses (called after a West Cork village near Clon’) are always popular sellers and No 9 Ardfield Lawn’s listed with agent Jeremy Murphy who says it’s in excellent condition, one of its three bedrooms is en suite and downstairs there’s both a ground floor guest WC and a utility.

The front living room has a feature open fireplace, and behind is a family room/linked dining room big enough for a large dining table, plus sofas, with compact kitchen off, with back-up of utility which has side garden access, a second access point to the outside.

Mr Murphy bills the grounds as “a fantastic side and rear garden, on a magnificent corner site with sandstone patio on the side, with a wonderful South Westerly aspect.”

The Price Register shows dozens of sales across several house types at Ardfield, Grange over the last several years, at prices over and under €200,000 and this year’s sales trio to date range from €190,000 to €255,000: the last sale in Ardfield Lawn was back in 2014, when No 6 made €232,000.

VERDICT: Garden’s going to be the sale clincher