Potential aplenty at €425k Ballinlough semi-d 

It's all Location, Location, Renovation! at this Browningstown house

Bessbrook, 28 Browningstown Park in Ballinlough

Ballinlough, Cork city
€425,000
Size	90sq m (969sq ft)
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	1
BER	G

Everything from mood boards and colour swatches to tile and flooring samples will be in the future of whoever buys this Ballinlough home.

Bessbrook at No 28 Browningstown Park West is your classic reno project.

“It’s a nice and solid house but it needs a complete renovation,” says selling agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing.

He recently sold another house nearby. No 57 Browningstown was already extended and in great condition — a glance at the Property Price Register reveals it went for €905k which looks to be a Browningstown record by some mile.

Very firmly on the plus side here is the ‘blank slate’ aspect of course. A few walks up and down the surrounding roads will give plenty of inspiration for everything from extensions to front doors and windows (and even front rooms too if you time those walks for when the lamps are on and before the curtains are drawn).

Currently a three-bed, one-bath home but that’s very likely to be upgraded to an extra bedroom or home office as well as an extra bathroom or two. 

An executor sale, there’s still traces of original character in everything from the tiled fireplaces to the kitchen alcove where an Aga or Rayburn lived.

The days are numbered for that BER of G and it’s likely the large garage with sheds behind it will go too, leaving a good-sized east-facing back garden with room for an extension to the side and rear.

VERDICT: Primary schools, playgrounds, a swimming pool, and parks within a few hundred metres. Bus routes near either end of this street make this a really convenient location.