€750,000 Cork home called Paradiso one of two detacheds sprung out of semi-d's side garden
WE generally know the value of an old head on young shoulders.The reverse can be true too, especially when it’s the case of a new house in an older setting: You get all of the comforts and efficiencies of the brand new — such as an A3 BER — along with all the range of schools, shops, services, and supports that normally only come in fits and starts to a suburb as it grows and matures.Paradiso found. Glasheen/Wilton and CUH on the doorstep Such is the case at No 4A Wilton Lawn. It’s a very recently built detached home, one of two good-sized detacheds built onto the side/rear of semi-d No 4 Wilton Lawn, one of a few pairs of about 1950s semi-ds on the Glasheen Rd just west of Cork’s St Finbarr’s Cemetery.Wilton Lawn generally tucks in off and behind the Glashen Rd by the Maxol station, linking on towards Green Park and Summerstown, also mostly laid out in rows of pairs of semis.Nos 4A and 4B Wilton Lawn behind No 4 are outliers not just for their detached status but because of their age too — not just five years old yet.The Price Register shows the “original” No 4 Wilton Lawn selling in 2018 for an even €400,000 on its large and then underdeveloped corner site.No 4 sold again in 2020 for a recorded €380,000, so possibly that was a sell-on minus the sites taken off. It now has all the signs of a substantial retrofit done to it very lately, and goes under the name Linden.Paradiso 4A exterior is smartThen No 4B around the corner in Wilton Lawn sold in 2021 for €555,000, while 4A sold in 2023 for €630,000. It also carries a name as well as a number, billed as Paradiso.All settled down, well-finished, and in walk-in order with a lofty A3 BER, Paradiso/aka 4A Wilton Lawn is now for sale for its private owner, listed with estate agent Mark Kelly, of West Cork based Hodnett Forde, with a €750,000 AMV. He describes it as an architecturally designed, double-fronted detached home of about 1,500sq ft, with high-quality fixtures, with two front reception rooms, full-width (27’ by almost 10’) rear kitchen/dining room, utility and guest WC, and four first-floor carpeted bedrooms — two with individual en suites and two to the back sharing a shower room, Jack and Jill style.There’s triple glazing, air-to-water heating, and a feature electric fire in one of the two reception rooms, a perspex lean-to covered roof with roll down plastic screening sides, and outdoor seating area to the south-aspected rear patio off the dining area. The site is walled, with electric gates, landscaped, and includes an insulated shed.As important as the quality and “newness” will be, the location and services — on several bus routes — within a five-minute amble on foot are CUH and Wilton Shopping Centre, UCC, and the Bons, as are schools (eg Glasheen), the N40, and some green areas, with a green space directly across the Glasheen Rd from Wilton Lawn at Roger Casement Park.According to the Price Register, Paradiso/4A set a price record for Wilton Lawn/Summertown/Green Park when it sold in 2021 for €630,000, followed by 4B at €555,000, while just one Summerstown semi-d (No 26, an extended four-bed, 1,780sq ft, D1-rated upgraded home with attic conversion) has breached the €500,000 mark, at €515,000, earlier this year.
VERDICT: Certain to top the price record it already holds for Wilton Lawn, Paradiso aka No 4A scores in terms of such a convenient settled suburban location near major employers and education establishments, as well as creature comforts and low-running costs.
