Trading up: Skehard Road, Cork €350,000

At a widely affordable level this c 1,200 sq ft three/four bed semi-d is at 48 Clover Lawn.

Size: 111 sq m (1,195sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 3 

Bedrooms: 3/4 

BER: D2

Skehard Road’s no longer a road to a cul de sac ending.

There’s houses of every size and sort of value all along suburban Cork’s Skehard Road, a stretch that has leapt upwards in profile since Mahon, just further out to the east along the city’s harbour boundary, extremity took off as a shopping and retail destination.

Property sales have varied from €75,000 for each of over two dozen apartments sold off at Mariners Hall, to bungalows in the mid €300,000s.

The daddy of them all was Ravenscourt House, a restored period beauty which made €1.1 million last year.

Now, at more widely affordable level is the c 1,200 sq ft three/four bed semi-d, at 48 Clover Lawn.

Clover Lawn’s now a good few decades old, and No 48’s a good example, freshened up and extended, in a cul de sac section with a green, as well as its own front and back gardens, patio and shed.

Selling agents Sherry FitzGerald guide at €350,000, and say the side 12’ by 10’ double-aspect den which is a later addition has scope to be used as an occasional fourth bedroom, if required, and it’s right by the ground floor shower room and utility.

There’s also a front sitting room with cast iron fireplace, and a dining room the full width of the rear by the extended kitchen.

VERDICT: Quietly impressing.