Frankfield, Cork, €340,000

Not only is the four-bed detached family home at 77 East Avenue in Parkgate, tastily painted up and decorated, but is also has an attic conversion up top, complete with several south-facing Veluxes to the rear. 

That uppermost room is in addition to the mid-1900s-built property’s c 1,400 sq ft of living accommodation, says its selling agent Jeremy Murphy.

He guides the well-kept family home at 340,000, and says Parkgate is one of Frankfield’s more popular estates and No 77 in East Avenue is well in towards the back...so close, in fact to the O’Flynn Construction development’s back boundary, that the the fire-ravaged Vernon Mount House is only stone’s throw over the hill to the north.

Detached No 77 has a good spec, with a stove set on a plinth by the front living room’s hearth, behind is a kitchen/diner with painted units, and adjacent family space with patio access, and there’s a utility to the side, and a guest WC.

Overhead one of the four bedrooms is en suite, and there’s stairs access to the attic with pine-panelled sloping ceilings.

Rounding out the picture at well-kept No 77 East Avenue is off-street parking, and a south facing rear garden on two stepped levels, walled in, with access from either side, plus there’s a shed.

The hinterland, on the fringes above Douglas village, is very well serviced for shops and amenities, as well as having easy access to the Airport Hill/ring road network.

Size: 130 sq m (1,400 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 3

BER: C2

VERDICT: ready to go.