Water views over Crosshaven from €440k modern build

Only a small number of Brightwater and Drake's Point Crosshaven homes have Cork harbour views: No 82 is one  of the handful

End of row setting gives 82 Drakes Point views over Crosshaven to Cork harbour. Note the projecting windows. Agents Sherry FitzGerald guide at €440,000

Crosshaven, Cork Harbour
€440,000
Size	140 sq m (1,509 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	A3

IT’S coming up on two decades now since Cork harbour’s Crosshaven community got its first, sizeable population boost, when the Brightwater development of what turned out to be c 200 new homes started out, behind and above historic Crosshaven House.

Since 2016, a second adjacent and related scheme, Drake’s Point by the same developers O’Flynn Group, has followed in Brightwater’s tracks, bringing c400 new builds to the coastal harbour location, in a valley above the village.

Aerial view of Crosshaven showing Drake's Point and Brightwater

But, of the hundreds in the two developments, only a small number have water and harbour views: they’ve been revealed as the sites progressed, but even still the numbers claiming a water vista are small.

Water and harbour glimpses

No 82 is one of these exalted few, and this four-bed semi-d, at the end of a row in Drake’s Point, gets those views from its site, and best from its projecting first-floor small bay windows, whilst it’s also slightly larger than most of its neighbouring run of four-bed semis.

Typically, they are 1,345 sq ft, but No 82 tips just over 1,500 sq ft and thus is c 10% larger within.

It’s now a resale, listed with estate agents Stuart O’Grady and Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, and the Price Register shows it selling day one, as a new-build at €350,000 back towards the end of 2017: the more standard-sized ones in the row seem to have sold for c €325,000 around 2018.

Kitchen/dining space

No 82’s a corner/end row home, facing a green, and the mid-distance views from its gable end are out over Currabinny Woods and towards Cobh and Haulbowline Island, while its back garden with long boundary wall holds a mix of bright seating spots, including an L-shaped seat by a fire-pit, small lawn, patio and path, steel shed and a home bar/catering set-up for outdoor entertaining and BBQs.

Inside, it’s in excellent order, with main front double-aspect reception room with inner harbour views from the side; there’s a solid fuel stove in the white marble fireplace, and there are similar water views from the kitchen/diner to the back, open plan with an island, and large pale floor tiles.

Double aspect front reception room

Off the kitchen is a utility and the ground floor has a guest WC, with a slightly uncommon hall and stairs layout, allowed by a bit of extra width in the floor plan.

Above are four bedrooms, with a main en suite with views from slight, projecting windows, and this laminate floored room is en suite with a shower.

The other three bedrooms are described as all being doubles, and the main family bathroom serving them is three-piece with a shower: the BER’s an A3, with an air-to-water heating system.

No 82 is in walk-in decorative condition say Sherry FitzGerald, and has off-street car parking to the front on a brick-paved drive.

Front faces an open, green area

Lifestyle attractions include a raft of water sports in the harbour, with Crosshaven home to the world’s oldest yacht club, the 1720-founded RCYC (Covid hit its 300th-anniversary plans), as well as soccer, GAA, tennis club and more, plus shoreline and cliff walks, adjacent beaches and good local services, schools etc.

VERDICT: Good as new in Drake’s Point, and the views from this particular property are a bonus its next owners may enjoy for their rooted years here, in a harbour setting, within a commute of Cork city and major harbour employment locations.