With landmark views of the cathedral, the harbour, and the street known locally as the Deck of Cards, this turn-key condition Cobh home is in an ace location.
Ranked one of Europe's most beautiful small towns by Condé Nast Traveler in 2023, Cobh’s candy-coloured tiered streets are guarded by the towering St Colman’s Cathedral.
This was the last port of call for those sailing on RMS Titanic. The harbour town was the childhood home of Caribbean pirate queen Anne Bonny, who left with her family for Charleston, South Carolina. From there she travelled to the Bahamas with her husband, whom she abandoned for a life on the high seas, having fallen for pirate captain John “Calico Jack” Rackham. She joined him aboard the Revenge and dressed in men’s clothes.
Address: 12 Lower Midleton Street, Cobh, CO. Cork, Cobh, Cork, P24 XR83
Asking price: €320,000
Agent: Johanna Murphy & Son
The town also bid adieu to 17-year-old Annie Moore, Ellis Island’s very first immigrant, who began her journey to the new world from here.
There’s a monument to her on the waterfront.
Crowned by Bandon Hill and St Colman’s, the striking Gothic Revival masterpiece with towering spires and incredible harbour views, Lower Midleton Street is a photogenic place to put down roots.
With a rendered front, its openings are unusually framed by pebbledash.
The two-bedroom, one-bathroom two-storey end terrace house slopes into the hill and its steep gradient.
Opening to the street, it has a welcoming hall with wainscot panelling that runs up the stairwell.
The living room is at the front and light-filled.
Dual aspect with French doors opening out to the gravelled side garden; its sofa is set around an open hearth.
A door leads through to the eat-in kitchen, whose dining area overlooks a picture window framing the view below.
The kitchen cabinets are in two distinct colours, dark coal black set in a C-shape for the working part of the space while the storage units are a pale birch colour.
Upstairs there are two double bedrooms.
The gable window in the primary has a cracking view down the hill towards the water.
The side garden has pedestrian side access and is flanked by West View, a row of 23 brightly coloured, Victorian terraced houses built on a steep hill, locally known as the Deck of Cards.
At the back of the house is a garden room with a home office painted the most serene of greens, its gable window capturing the vista.
The town is a 30-minute train journey from Cork’s Kent station.
There is residents’ disc parking on the street but not outside the house, where double yellow lines feature.
Agents Johanna Murphy & Son is seeking €320,000 for the two-bedroom, one-bathroom house, which extends to 96 square metres and has a C2 BER rating.
