Trading up: Maryborough Hill, Cork €275,000

There’s two special areas prized by the owners of the reworked and detached home at 63 Lissadell, off Cork’s suburban Maryborough Hill, beyond Douglas.

Size: 102 sq m (1,100 sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 2 

Bedrooms: 3 

BER: D2

One is the redone and quite high-end contemporary kitchen with big island, where the kitchen/dining function is spread across the full rear of the 1981-built home, and also links to the smart front reception room, with wood-burning stove.

Less predictable is the choice of two bathrooms, one quite traditional yet modern, with shower, the other’s more pared back, and houses a freestanding deep bath, very Japanese in its bathing room simplicity, and both wash rooms are plainly tiled so they won’t date in a hurry.

The deep bath is the owners’ guilty secret, quips Mark Rose, who is now dipping his toes in the water to sell No 63.

It has indeed been reconfigured quite a bit, so now it’s got one downstairs bedroom and two double bedrooms overhead, plus those two bathrooms.

There’s a replacement and very efficient oil burner, double glazing, wood-burning stove and a D2 BER, which probably doesn’t reflect the real comfort factor.

Overall, it’s very bright and open plan (it’s west facing at the back), and the gated rear garden has a block-built storage shed, while there’s off-street parking in front for several cars on a cobble lock drive.

No 63 Lissadell is a “a credit to its owners,” says the Rose Property Services agent.

VERDICT: Luxury on tap