Home hunters expected to flock to well-feathered Herons Wood home

Departing family have put their mark on €575k No 4 The Oaks in Carrigaline's Herons Wood 

Opened up interior at The Oaks

Carrigaline, Cork
€575,000
Size	158 sq m (1,690 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	B3

NO 4 The Oaks is a detached home that has moved both with the times, and moved with its family’s accommodation and lifestyle needs – but now, 21 years on, the family is moving on.

Rear view

How lucky the next crew will be to just walk on in to this smartly evolved base.

Bought off plans back in 2002 and moved into in 2003, No 4 The Oaks in Herons Wood, on the Cork side of Carrigaline, has been home to a couple working in the pharma sector in the greater harbour/Ringaskiddy area so was in close proximity to their employment.

Then, as their family grew, “more importantly Carrigaline town became essential to family life with its choice of schools and excellent choice of leisure amenities,” say the owners, now fortunately able to pack up to move to a trade-up closer to the water near Crosshaven.

Open and airy

As they move up and out, it’s likely the buyers of their now c. 1,700 sq ft home deep within Astra Construction’s Herons Wood will be a family also looking for a bigger home, possibly trading up out of a three-bed semi. If so, they’ll be getting an extra bedroom and possibly 50% more overall space than the standard of that type. Might it even be a first-time buyer/couple moving to Cork with well-paying jobs and strong borrowing power?

Herons Wood in Carrigaline is next to Astra Construction's new scheme Janeville

No 4 is guided at €575,000 by Lawrence Sweeney, of Savills, who says it has been reordered smartly at ground level to the back and “decorated and presented to the highest standards”. His vendors renovated in 2017, opening up the back for one large, L-shaped room, instead of three compartmentalised ones, by removing walls so the kitchen/diner now opens to a family living with stove. 

It then goes out to the bright sunroom, west-facing, with glazing on three sides and which has a Velux on one section of the solid, pitched roof (this sunroom was a standard feature of these detacheds at The Oaks).

Rolled steel joists (RSJs) hold up what’s needed after the walls came down and the result is a very airy space, open plan and well finished.

Mr Sweeney says: “It’s the heart of the home, ideal for entertaining or for family meals.”

There’s also a front reception, walnut-floored with a slight bay window and fireplace, utility and guest WC, while overhead there are four bedrooms, one en suite, a main bathroom and Stira access to an attic with Veluxes in the roof to the rear.

Condition is pristine, with some colourful art brightening walls.

The family also took the garden in hand in 2020/2021 during covid times, re-landscaping with some raised beds, shrubs and acers adding sit-out areas, redoing a large patio in stone and putting in another sit-out space

with a pergola and hanging seat by a garden shed.

No 4 gets a B3 BER so buyers may get a cheaper green-rate mortgage. It also has a charge point for an electric car and fibre broadband.

Fourth bedroom has work from home option

A kitchen upgrade was completed by O’Mahony O’Donovan in 2022 after consultations with Geri Design, “who provided ideas and recommendations on kitchen layout and finishes”.

No 4 is the first resale at the The Oaks section for almost a decade. No 1 sold in 2014 for a recorded €325,500 and No 8 sold a year later for €385,000, according to the Price Register.

VERDICT: Great location, great condition, well-aspected garden, fresh feel, airy inside and new-feel kitchen – Herons Wood home is going to fly.