With rolling views of Cork City, this Frankfield home offers up something unique
Old meets new, and downstairs crosses with upstairs amid views from on high over a putting green towards Cork city, with this distinctive, architect-adapted home in Cork’s Frankfield, called The Fairways.
The detached home integrates an early 1800s stone building facade as part of a building which did temporary service as a church for a number of years until Frankfield’s Holy Trinity was built nearby, in the expanding outer Douglas, in 1838 as a chapel of ease for St Fin Barre’s cathedral.
The outline of the original bell housing, recalling its pealing days of church service, is still visible at the stone facade’s apex, and the current, contemporary dwelling was built around it in 2010.
It overlooks Frankfield Golf Club’s hilly nine-hole course on Cork’s southern hill fringes, and is close to the historic villa-like Frankfield House, sharing a setting with a couple of other one-off homes.
Frankfield Golf Club closed in 2015, after 31 years in operation, but its driving range, putting green, and clubhouse bar facilities are still in operation and open to the public at this lofty perch, just above the Kinsale Road roundabout, with Cork city, suburbs and valley views.
Now, estate agent Sean McCarthy of ERA Downey McCarthy has the one-off Fairways up for sale, and he describes it as modern, comfortable, and very spacious.
He guides the highly distinctive build with its accommodation and bedrooms over three levels at €495,000.
It’s set at the top of the Frankfield estate of 1970s bungalows and detached two-storey homes, with a north-west aspect and full-on views of a Scots pine tree in the midst of views to the city.
Those views are best experienced from the house’s first-floor feature: a double-aspect sitting room with three arched windows, stove, and mezzanine, which is reached via a spiral staircase. There are also enticing views to be had from the first-floor en suite master bedroom.
There are two further bedrooms at ground level, and a fourth bedroom up on the mezzanine, while there are separate, distinctly different-feeling living areas at both ground and first-floor levels thanks to a layout which sees membrane-sheathed curved roof extensions either side of the central stone facade.
Rooms include sun room, kitchen/diner/family living room with Cherrywood units and a wood-burning stove, utility, large family bathroom, three/four bedrooms, and wide circulation areas.
It has a front lawn fringed with sleepers, parking for several cars, and a steel storage shed on its grounds, which face the drive up to Frankfield House.
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