Seven can be heaven, with top quality new-builds on Cork city's peaceful Quaker Road
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Seven new, A-rated builds on and off venerable Quaker Road in the heart of Cork city's southside
YOU can wait months, or even years, for a walk-in order home in as handy an older-city setting as Cork’s uber-convenient Quaker Road. Then, hey, suddenly nine arrive together, including, most unusually, detached city homes with contemporary elan, and on meticulously landscaped grounds .
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They come for sale at the end of quite a long journey, starting back in 2016, in fact, when a trio with long experience in the home building trade got together and first bought two in ’17: they then picked up a third — No 9 — in 2017, giving them enough presence on this venerable older times city cross street and, critically, with long gardens behind them to allow for slight, additional infill or vacant city lot development.
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One of the more unexpected hiccups was being slapped with a derelict sites order and a €6,000 levy, even though at the time of the order they’d only quite recently taken ownership and had a live planning application and were rearing to go.
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Hopefully, with the current national and local drive to reduce vacancy and dereliction, that sort of seemingly intractable response wouldn’t pertain today? And, in any case, the planning process eventually worked its way through; the site has been turned from dereliction/underuse to sensitive, high quality new housing, including a period of construction during the pandemic. The fully finished result is here now, seven new builds, out of the box and out of the ground, all good to go.
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The Quaker Road ensemble is listed with estate agents Suzanne Tyrrell and Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing who say not only is the design and quality of a very high standard, with styles and layouts different one from another, front to back, but the chance to buy a new detached home so centrally set in the city/inner suburbs is beyond rare: if a site like this came available now, the locally authority would definitely be pushing for higher density.
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But here all seven are available to private buyers. The front three, the mid-terraced numbers 7, 8, and 9 Quaker Road will allow buyers quality for the Help to Buy Scheme, as all are under the €500,000 HTB price threshold.
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Now hold a breath as the four detached two-beds inside are up quite the price notch. Slightly varying in size and internal layout, as well as with the amount of outdoor space, they range from from 943 sq ft to 954 sq ft, each over two levels; all are equally priced at €585,000 or at about €620 per square foot (psf).
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Comparisons might be the current sale offer of 29 Quaker Road, also on the market; it’s a D1-rated two-bed/one bath mid-terraced home in good order, of 49 sq m, guided at €215,000.
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The area’s Qaker past is, indeed recalled again here too, in the gates guarding the entrance to Quaker Court’s four homes on the other side. These commissioned gates incorporate the eight-pointed star (unlike Israel’s six-pointed one) and has been used as a symbol of peace by non-combatant Quakers in battles and other roles since the late 19th century.
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Quaker Court’s four detached houses are cleverly staggered on the deep and narrow site, two to the left, two to the right, alternating with a central passage between them for long sight lines, while the internal route is characterised by good attention to hard landscaping and planting (done by Sublime Landscaping) including a crisp white-painted, rendered boundary walls, and the zig-zag placing also helps cut overlooking from one house to the other.
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Build quality of the individual houses is high (they were effectively built by direct labour by the experienced developer trio who have other sites in the pipeline,) done in Cygnum timber frame for the back four, with en suite bedrooms, large guest WCs and private bathrooms, flooring is fully finished, good kitchens and bedrooms built-ins, with carpeted stairs and stainless steel handrails in the detacheds.
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VERDICT: You’d know an architect was given an extra bit of free rein here, it shows in the freshness of the finished product, while the chances of a private development being done again in such a convenient city setting with detached home options is extremely rare.