Sunny disposition at this upside-down €495,000 Myrtleville home

St Patrick's, on Cooney's Road, has an upper deck and a patio below to make the most of its south-facing aspect

St Patrick's, Cooney's Road, Myrtleville

Sat, 07 Oct, 2023 - 17:00

Catherine Shanahan

Myrtleville, Cork
€495,000
Size	152 sq m (1,636 sq ft)
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	3
BER	B3

IF you are fortunate enough to own a home with a glorious south-facing aspect, the sensible thing to do is to make the most if it, which is what the owners of this Myrtleville home did when they built it 17 years ago.

If what's visible from the roadside looks pretty basic, there's plenty of drama out back. The house drops down a level to the rear and turns a heavily glazed face towards the sun.

It's an entirely different house when you view if from the garden, individual looking, with steels steps running up from a patio to a large raised deck around the top floor. You can access the deck via the steps or through French doors that open from the sitting room, where an apex window rises into the vaulted, beamed ceiling.

The balcony acts as a canopy over a portion of the ground below, creating shade when the sun gets too much on the patio.

Beyond the patio, a sloping lawn has an apple tree and a couple of barna sheds and mature hedging. The vista is lovely, but doesn't reach to the coast, which is quite close, because the view is blocked off by tree tops.

St Patrick's, on Cooney's Road, not far from Crosshaven Rugby Club, is what you would call an upside-down house, because the majority of bedrooms are on the ground floor. There are three bedrooms, and the largest is en suite, with French doors to the patio, and with "walk-in wardrobes like you've never seen before", says selling agent Terence O'Leary of Murray Browne auctioneers.

Truth be told, the house was extended 10 years ago for the purpose of creating that walk-in wardrobe, which as Mr O'Leary points out, is big enough to be converted into another bedroom, or a home office. A second ground-floor bedroom also has French doors to the patio.

Daytime accommodation is upstairs, including that large and lofty sitting room, a kitchen and guest WC and one bedroom.

The owners, originally from Myrtleville, are relocating west and Mr O'Leary says he is seeing "steady interest" in St Patrick's.

"Most of those who are looking are originally from the area and have ties here and they would like to come back to Myrtleville or Crosshaven," he says.

The 152 sq m house, which has a B3 energy rating making buyers eligible for more favourable green mortgage rates, is just 5km from Crosshaven, 8km from Carrigaline town centre, 20km from Cork City, and within walking distance of Myrtleville Beach.