Soak up the harbour views from €580k Norwood Park home

38 Norwood Park, Cobh

Cobh, Co Cork
€580,000
Size	207 sq m (2228 sq ft)
Bedrooms	7
Bathrooms	5
BER	C2

ONE great, big, unending maritime spectacle unfolds to the rear of No 38 Norwood Park. It’s as action-packed a harbour vista as you could wish for and, because the back of the house faces south, you get the best light too.

There’s clear potential to make more of this Cobh home’s best features by installing floor-to-ceiling windows on the harbour-facing side and French doors to a rear patio.

Selling agent Johanna Murphy of Johanna Murphy & Sons suggests rearranging the layout, such as opening up the living room/dining room to the breakfast room and kitchen and perhaps knocking a wall between two harbour-facing bedrooms to create a suite.

Most modern households would have no need for seven bedrooms – or five bathrooms – unless the plan was to run a B&B/AirBnB. Otherwise, rooms could be put to other use: home office, study, playroom, teen den, gym or walk-in wardrobe. At a generous 207 sq m, you won’t be caught for space.

Outside is a little tighter. No 38 is on a triangle-shaped wedge of land, with lots of room for off-street parking to the front and side, but with a more compact rear, divided between a narrow lawn and an elongated patio that fans out in places. 

It’s enough to capture sunshine and views, but Ms Murphy suggests that a deck on stilts might be worth considering.

The agent adds that there’s “lots of interest” in this Norwood Park home, high above Cobh town, yet just a 10 minute walk to the train station and town centre, and conveniently close to the local tennis club and a number of schools. She adds that properties in the park “always sell very well” and there’s a good deal of local interest.

“A lot of money was invested in the house in 2000 and that’s why it has such a good C2 energy rating,” Ms Murphy says. Her guide price for the bungalow is €580,000.

VERDICT: Lots of flexible living space. All about the view.