Trick or treat? Cork's long-mothballed ghost estate is €1.24m Halloween week offer
Four luxury detached homes have remained vacant at Ashely on the Rochestown Road since 2009. The ghost estate featured recently in The New York Times in an article about dereliction in Ireland. Pic: Larry Cummins default
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Rochestown Road, Cork City |
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€1.24 million |
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Size |
2,250 - 2,700 sq ft |
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Bedrooms |
5 - 5 |
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Bathrooms |
4 |
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C2 B2- |
A HANDFUL of houses that formed part of a niche, but high-profile ‘ghost estate’ in Cork’s affluent suburb of Rochestown have finally come to market … in this Halloween week.
The four are done to an ‘Edwardain/Arts and Crafts’ design template, and they replaced an older home of that same name. Ashely Mark ll came a cropper when the property market collapsed back in the mid- to late-2000s.
Designed by BOC Architects and developed at the time by a family behind the eventually completed Lindville development on the Blackrock Road in Ballintemple, Ashley had hopes of €1m+ plus sales before hitting the skids.
One home was finished out as a showhouse, offered in 2009 with a €1.3m price tag (later reduced, twice, but unsold): it’s now boarded up and the other three are unfinished internally, while two sites remain largely untouched, but with services on site).
VERDICT: Trick or treat? Ashley will appeal to builders mostly who may take on this part-completed, once ambitious and grandly conceived project by the roundabout by St Patrick’s Church. External finishes are tops, but the sites are tight and having been empty for over 15 years they might merit close surveyor scrutiny too.
