Older world feel in great spot
THERE’S a lovely, older world feel to No 1 Vandeville, a period era end-terrace home at the start of Cork city’s Ballinlough Road. It’s near St Finbarr’s Hospital, the reinvigorated bar the Southern Star, new cafes at Capwell Road and Bellair Estate, a Tesco Express, and is a 10- or 15-minute walk to the city centre: its location knocks it out of the park for southside, easy suburban convenient living.Likely to date to about 1900, it’s the first of a terrace of four compact charmers, each with railed front gardens, bay windows, slate roof, and red brick chimneystacks, and it’s the only one of the four with side access to its rear garden.It’s new to market with estate agent James G Coughlan, with a €360,000 AMV: that’s what nearby No 4 went up for sale at, back in 2019 when it featured in these pages, and it sold by early 2020 for a recorded €352,000.Time has moved on in the near-five years since, as has the market, but the pricing is at this similar point because No 4 had had slight extension work and general upgrades done to it, with size put at 1,1,00 sq ft when it appeared in these pages. In contrast, No 1 is put at just 66 sq m or just over 700 sq ft, by Jim Coughlan, and he adds that it needs modernisation: it comes with an E2 BER right now (No 4 was similar, with an E1 BER.)Nos 1 and 2 have original sash windows, looking lovely in their bays, and from the front door in No 1 has loads of original features, hall tiling, varnished floors, stripped pine doors, and original fireplaces too, in the front living room and in all three bedrooms. It’s got black period style central heating radiators and the bath is a huge cast iron one, with green enamel inside and a looped shower curtain above.“This gem will appeal to the discerning buyer who is looking for something timeless and different,” says Mr Coughlan adding that it’s got a great back garden (running back along one of the two entrances to Marble Hall Lawn) with gated side access from its railed front.
VERDICT: Loads of originality.
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