The subsequent purchaser of no 49 Ardkeale, in Cork’s Mount Oval growth in Rochestown, is sort of seemingly already dwelling regionally, says the property agent handing its sale.
“Six of the final seven gross sales of indifferent household houses I had in Mount Oval had been purchased by households within the growth who had been buying and selling up,” says Kevin Barry, of Barry Auctioneers, who quotes €750,000 for the two,050 sq ft, indifferent four-bed.
No 49 is in showhouse order, already prolonged, and with intelligent storage touches.
If it has a well-recognized look to it, it might be as a result of it featured right here on the very begin of 2024, when it got here on the market, already well prolonged on the rear, and rapidly went ‘sale agreed’ in a robust year-start market with restricted provide for its then-€745,000 AMV.
True to kind for Mount Oval and trade-up/trade-down motion within the setting, No 49’s present homeowners are staying very native, too, having purchased a bigger, six-bed indifferent on greater gardens, more likely to be seen quickly on the Worth Register as one in every of Mount Oval Village’s three-to-date €1m+resales.
Broadly west-facing and near the western finish of the by way of street within the 800-home Mount Oval growth (development started in 2005), No 49 is one in every of six detacheds in a row. It’s on a nook web site, with main extension works performed by earlier homeowners, whereas in the present day’s distributors upgraded some options, however, most notably, set it up for low power payments on their B-rated residence with 19 photo voltaic panels, an 8.3kWh battery, and an electric-car charger.
How a lot of a distinction that makes to a BER score is tough to quantify now, because it already had a B3 BER in 2024; after simplifying the score bands again a couple of months in the past, it nonetheless has a B.
Already in situ within the shiny, rear extension — with its tall clerestory home windows — is an upright gasoline range, giving a coziness to the massive kitchen/dwelling/eating room, with glass on three sides, in addition to with a roof gentle.
The extension was designed by Midleton-based architect Michael Carroll, with constructing work performed by Derek O’Sullivan/DOS Building.
Up above a part of the membrane-roofed add-on is a first-floor projection off one of many again bedrooms, giving house for a really giant walk-in closet/dressing room/vainness space (pic, beneath), and each of the 2 bedrooms at this mid-level have their very own en-suite bedrooms.
Proceed on up one other carpeted flight of stairs and there are two extra dormer-level bedrooms, plus a most important household lavatory with tub with pumped water.
Down on the floor flooring, the entrance lounge has a 9’ ceiling and fireside with gasoline insert, there’s a visitor WC, and other than the spacious dwelling/eating/kitchen (with white-granite-topped island) there’s an enlarged utility room.
A utility in its personal proper, too, is the lined and walk-through safe aspect passage on one of many two entry factors to the rear backyard, which is completed with a mixture of exhausting and mature mushy landscaping in raised beds. There’s off-street parking to the entrance on a brick-paved drive, with electric-car cost level to the aspect.
VERDICT: Stroll-in situation in a salubrious, coveted Cork suburb.