GARDENS planted over 45 years ago have now more than borne fruit for the family home called Trade Winds – they also provide great screening, privacy and year-round and seasonal colour.
Set on Cork’s main Rochestown Road, it’s one of c a dozen one-off, detached homes – none of them small – built in the early 1980s, in front of Lime Trees and just before the N28/ring road crossover and St Patrick’s Church.
It’s been the private home from day one of a Cork business family, and selling now on their behalf is Patricia Stokes who guides the 2,750 sq ft five-bed home at €895,000.
She says it’s already spacious, has a great mix of ground floor rooms (four reception rooms,) and has an attached double garage with conversion/integration scope as it’s back-to-back with a lounge allowing for double aspect great rooms, and has a south-facing back garden.
Trade Winds is on c 0.3 of an acre, generous by today’s standards and was built at a time when families were larger too, Ms Stokes notes, adding the Douglas/Rochestown location is “superb.”
One of its five first floor bedrooms has an en suite and all are doubles, with built-ins, while quality materials were used internally, such as hardwood stairs, stained glass and a burgundy coloured main bathroom with bidet.
Dated internally and reflective of its ‘80s vintage, it’s got a D1 BER and oil central heating.
VERDICT: New owner might want to breath a fresh blast of current fashion into Trade Winds and update the décor, or even do some internal reconfiguring, but they’re unlikely to need to add on any more square footage?
