Plenty of room to manoeuvre in spacious €420k four-bed Cork home

This family home off Cork’s Rochestown Road is as well-finished as you'd expect — but comes with the bonus of a detached, large flexible workspace  which could serve as a games,  hobby room or home office 

23 Kiltegan Park off Rochestown Road in Cork is a spacious and flexible family home. It is listed with an AMV of €420,000 by Sherry FitzGerald. Pictures: John Roche

Rochestown, Cork
€420,000
Size	128 sq m (1,379 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	B3

THE pristine 23 Kiltegan Lawn is bang-on-trend in these pandemic times  - it's got a multi-purpose room recently built in its back garden, ideal for use as a studio, yoga space, gym, storage, hobbies or as a home office.

While the 1,380 sq ft house's décor theme is crisp and smart, the detached  250 sq ft well-built work room/gym/games room, with roller access door, power and water supply and built to proper construction standards is a blank canvas for its next occupant's wishes.

23 Kiltegan Park

Listed just this past week with estate agents Ann O’Mahony and Stuart O’Grady of Sherry FitzGerald with a €420,000 AMV, No 23’s an upgraded and updated four-bed home off Cork’s main Rochestown Road, set in a cul de sac section of a quite large development done around the late 1980s by O’Flynn Construction before they moved up the hill of Mount Oval to build over 800 more houses and apartments up there.

Kiltegan itself is laid out in several sections of what was the former acres of ground that went with Kiltegan House, previously associated with missionary religious order and where the original period house is now the anchor of the much enlarged Rochestown Park Hotel.

Although 23 Kiltegan Park, off Rochestown Road, already has oodles of space, the new addition out the back could be pressed into service as a home office,  gym, hobby room or, subject to planning permission, further accommodation. Pictures: John Roche

The Price Register shows 27 resales since 2010 with a Kiltegan address, the highest of which was No 5 Kiltegan Lawn in 2019, at €460,000. In the Kiltegan Park section, there are 18 resales, ranging in price up to €437,000, which was for No 14 back in 2015. In fact, of the three in Kiltegan Park which topped €400k, the Register records No 23 itself, back in 2017 when its current owner got it, and it shows then in December ’17 at €410,000.

The well-built detached  room, workshop, gym, hobby  or games room) extends to 250 sq ft, and is well lit, and supplied with 14 power points. 

Since then, it has had its multi-purpose room added at  the back, with 14 power points, and which has multiple uses, or even overflow accommodation, subject to planning approval for higher-grade residential use.

Sherry FitzGerald say the house itself is turn-key, redesigned “and maintained to an exceptionally high standard throughout". 

Internally, it has a comfortable front reception room left of the now-extended hall, with a Silestone fireplace, and the room is wired for surround sound.

The full-width kitchen at 23 Kiltegan Park has  integrated Bosch appliances, spacious dining area, Silestone fireplace, and French doors to the back patio. Pictures: John Roche

Behind is a full-width kitchen, with lots of integrated Bosch appliances, plus dining area with another Silestone fireplace, with rear garden/patio access through French doors.

There’s a guest WC under the stairs, and a utility room off the kitchen for laundry which leads, in turn, to a laminate-floored family room which faces to the front garden.

In the original Kiltegan homes’ layout, these rooms were often garages, hence the handy link via the utility but, by now,  most residents have colonised them for family use, and not for cars, bikes, or golf clubs.

Linked by (former, now usually converted) garages:  Kiltegan Park

Hence the logic to building a quite elaborate work/storage space to the back of No 23, and it can be reached via a side passage to the left-hand side of the house only, as the estate’s layout sees homes generally linked on one side to their neighbours at the ground-floor level on one side, a sort of compromise between detached and semi-detached status.

Above, No 23 has four bedrooms, one with en-suite with a shower, and there’s also attic access. The main family bathroom has a shower over the bath, and ventilation options include an upgraded extractor and "natural ventilation" as the agents note, ie, an openable window.

Externally, No 23 has a lawn, and off-street parking, and the side passage leads to a walled-in rear garden with small lawn section and paved patio, not overly large any more as the garden takes up a chunk of this enclosed space, with PIR motion-detector alarms.

VERDICT: There's a built bonus in the backl.