Versatile home with room to expand at Rochestown

A garage and garden to the side could mean a good opportunity to extend at this Newlyn Vale home

Tue, 08 Sep, 2026 - 18:05

Caroline Delaney

Rochestown, Cork
€550,000
Size	135 sq m [1453 sq ft]
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	C2

THERE’S room to go upwards and outwards at this detached Rochestown home. The corner site that 28 Newlyn Vale sits on means it’s got a generous side garden as well as the back garden, so new owners could look at sorting permission to convert the garage to living space and add on a second-storey room above it too.

And that’s without eating up any of the back garden at this 1987-built home.

An executor sale, it’s a “lovely, clean home with a good C2 energy rating”, says agent Brian Olden, of Cohalan Downing.

You’ve got two living rooms and a separate kitchen, so new owners may also look at opening up some of these.

Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, and the main one has its own bathroom.

There haven’t been too many re-sales at Newlyn Vale — fewer than 10, according to the Property Price Register which goes back to 2010, but one of the most recent was in February last for €455,000.

Interest in this 135sq m home, which is on the market for €550,000, is coming from a mix of younger first-time buyers and people keen to trade down within the area, says Mr Olden.