Price of upwardly mobile in Cork's Sunday's Well? A few steps up, up and away at €630k Landscape Villa
THERE’S more than a touch of faded elegance to Landscape Villa, a Sunday’s Well Cork City home whose name even sounds attractive.Dating to the 1880s and at the city end of Sunday’s Well Road and elevated above it, it’s a Victorian-era detached home that also qualifies as a hidden gem, one well worth polishing up to restore to finery and make comfortable for future decades of city living, on high. Landscape Villa's bay facadeVirtually unseen from anywhere except by drone, Landscape Villa has an exceptional calling card, given its Sunday’s Well location and swell address: Secure, off-street parking for several cars, behind a set of sturdy timber gates, with an ancillary pedestrian gate, also, for more regular ins and outs on foot, within a downhill/uphill walk of the city via the salubrious North Mall.Southerly aspectThe wide home, with twin bay windows facing due south, and with a western end with deep bay with balcony overhead off a bedroom for the best viewing point, is fresh to market with estate agent Adrianna Hegarty, of Hegarty Properties, with a €630,000 AMV.Bay watchIf that seems low for a detached, c 2,700 sq ft Sunday’s Well home with up to five bedrooms and parking for three or four cars, it’s because it now needs updating, and, hopefully, in a manner sensitive to its period-era roots and retained, internal architectural features.Previous long-term owners had deep academic roots to University College Cork, reflecting the area’s long association with university staff (and students), given relative proximity to the UCC campuses, and expanded towards the Mercy Hospital, with pedestrian access options via the North Mall or Shakey Bridge.Low-key discrete entrance gives nothing away More recently, the area is also strongly favoured by medics at the Mercy, Bon Secours, and Cork University Hospital centres, but Landscape Villa may also cast its net just that bit wider to those who just crave a period home close to the city core, with perfect aspect, and vistas to behold.It has up to four reception rooms across its front, as well as a front, full-width balustraded terrace overlooking stepped gardens.Parking for plentyIf there’s a downside, it’s the fact it’s reached up a flight of external steps from the parking area. Will supermarket home deliveries (or, Deliveroo?) ever drop up the shopping for next owners? or, want to leave the heavier bags down at the parking section?Hmm, answers on an old-fashioned postcard, please.Builders, too, may not appreciate the extra burden of ferrying heavy materials up to the front door, but a winch or small crane or other lift device can be installed temporarily in the parking area, perhaps?
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