This high-spec Waterfall home is rural but not remote
CORK’s Waterfall has a broad reach, and a mounting appeal.
The diverse, scattered Waterfall district runs around a broad shoulder of hill, and down dales, south-west of Cork’s western suburbs and Bishopstown, stretching towards Ballinhassig, Halfway, Crossbarry and even Ballincollig.
The fact that it’s rural, but not remote, seems to be a key attraction from many families on the move looking for larger homes in which to rear a brood, or trade out of the ’burbs.
The level of interest in the general Waterfall hinterland can be gauged from the list of 200-250 names built up when it came to sales release time earlier this month for five new-builds at Earls Well, near O’Sheas pub in Waterfall village.
There, the new life breathed in the former Fleming Construction Earls Well scheme of 42 homes, now being overseen by Nama, was rewarded when the first five released all sold to names on the list with selling agents Savills, at price of €605,000 to €635,000 for 2,300 sq ft and 2,800 sq ft four-bed A3 rated houses, on good sites each of 0.3-0.5 of an acre.
Other names on the built-up list are expected to roll over into future releases, and word is they were priced fairly, to allow for future increments if the market continues to grow at the pace it did over the past year.
A handful of other houses at Earls Well, released last year and including a couple of fully-decked out show houses from the mid-2000s, had previously sold at prices ranging from €470,000-€900,000, while next door in Fleming’s previous scheme, Heatherfield, resales are currently in the €500,000-plus price bracket.
However, for those who want a four-bed Waterfall home, ready to move into, or who might not have well in excess of €600,000 to spend on new product, this new-to- market, one-off arrival called Raphael very well might do the trick and fit the bill.
Priced at €465,000 by estate agent Jeremy Murphy, it’s a more traditional-shaped dormer home, with 2,100 sq ft of very well finished internal space on a private site, with lawns, hedge boundaries, parking for a small fleet of cars, plus a steel shed.
Location is in a different part of Waterfall than Earls Well: it’s at Liskillea, Waterfall and it’s best reached off the Bandon Road once past the Maxol station at the Top of the Liberties, a mile or so past Rearour/Rumleys’ Open Farm.
It’s a five-ten minute, 6km drive from Bishopstown and the Dunnes roundabout, so it’s not remote, say the selling agents Jeremy Murphy Associates (who formally opened their own new pad, estate agency offices in a refurbished Georgian building at 50 South Mall just last night, so they’re currently used to the smell of fresh paint.)
Raphael is in walk-in order, well-finished and neutrally presented in pale tones, says Mr Murphy, and it has one of its four bedrooms at ground level, next to a recently, fully-tiled wet room shower, which serves both as an en suite and a guest WC, dually accessed from the utility room.
The main family bathroom upstairs has a Jacuzzi bath, plus there’s a first floor en suite master bedroom.
Other rooms include a living room with fireplace and bay window, loounge/dining room with oak floor and another quality fireplace, kitchen with painted units, island and granite tops.
Raphael is ideal as an upgrader family, with lots of space and an excellent finish, say the agents.
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