This Kinsale Road home oozes potential

Tommy Barker sees huge potential, and a huge rear garden, ‘Green Acres’ so-to-speak, at No 36.

Kinsale Road, Cork City €285,000

Size: 119 sq m (1,280 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3 plus attic

Bathrooms: 2

BER: D1

Best Feature: Huge extra scope

You can do so much, or as little, as you want at Fatima, an extended three-bedroomed semi-detached home on a cracking, large corner site in suburban Green Lawn, Cork.

The extra size of the site, coming on top of a great location in a cul de sac park off the Kinsale Road/Curragh Road in easily reached mature suburbs, should drive considerable interest in this new-to-market offer, guided at €285,000 by Fiona Waldron of Jeremy Murphy Associates.

It was built in the 1950s, the same era as the adjacent Mercier Park and Slieve Mish Park were done by the same builders; and, after all those decades, Green Lawn is the only one to have kept its central green space: the others subsequently got built upon.

Within a walk of the city centre via Turners Cross, and of UCC, as well as being a kilometre from the Kinsale Road roundabout/city pivot, Green Lawn has a low-density mix of semi-ds and bungalows, and is steadily getting its stock modernised and individual homes extended when resales come along.

That’s almost certainly the future for Fatima, aka No 36, which is now an executor sale.

It has had previous modest add-ons, plus an attic conversion, and is ready to rear a new family, all over again.

“It needs some modernisation, but it oozes potential,” enthuses Ms Waldron, and the property’s substantial wedge-shaped site broadens to a mature and very wide back garden, seemingly nearly twice the size of many of its near neighbours.

With a great rear aspect too, it is extendable to the side and back and whatever is added on will get sun virtually all day long, while still having plenty of front garden and parking, plus side access.

It has been well kept, with wide hall with a feature porthole window to the front, and two ground floor reception rooms, each with fireplaces, and off the kitchen to the far side is an added-on utility and ground floor guest WC with shower.

The first floor has three bedrooms and a main bathroom, as well as permanent stair access to a converted attic where there’s two further rooms, lit by Velux windows, plus eaves storage.

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