Eye-catching Cork city building up for sale on Lower Glanmire Road
One of Cork city’s eye-catching buildings, the Victorian/Edwardian red-brick corner property at the junction of 1, Lower Glanmire Road and Summerhill north, is for sale.
The three-storey, 3,500sq ft wedge-shaped and brick faced building, crowned with a copper roofed turret is for sale with agent Rob Coughlan of Cohalan Downing Auctioneers; he guides at €350,000, and describes it as a landmark property.
Location is at the foot of Summerhill north which leads up to St Luke’s Cross and beyond, while it is also close to the just re-orientated Kent Railway Station.
It’s also on the doorstep of the mixed occupier Penrose Wharf development, as well as being proximate to Penrose Quay, where a very substantial new office development is being mooted for an assembled site, understood to be at advanced pre-planning discussions with City Hall for developers JCD.
Also due development very shortly nearby is the Horgans Quay/HQ development with Clarendon Properties/BAM, while planning is now in place for the major c €50m redevelopment of the Metropole Hotel and new ‘M’ hotel on St Patrick’s Quay.
Bite-size by comparison with what’s coming down the development tracks almost on its doorstep, No Lower Glanmire Road spotted from several city angles, including Brian Boru Street, and is especially notable from MacCurtain Street, itself a paragon of Victorian era architecture and which has branded the vicinity as the Victorian Quarter.
Across the road junction at Summerhill north is the elegant limestone Trinity Presbyterian Church, built in 1861 and crowned with a slender, tapering tall spire (with the slightest of bends in it), which has just had a restoration project completed on it.
No 1 has accommodation laid out over basement ground, first and second floors, with dual street access. The commercial elements of the 3,500 sq ft property are currently vacant and overhead are two one-bed apartments, which are rented. Previous uses included a dental practice, a deli, an audio shop Munster Sounds and, before that, a car hire business
Agent Rob Coughlan says it’s appealing for an investor, and/or owner occupier and may suit additional residential conversion.
Other changes near to hand include a planning for a 15-storey tower on Clontarf Street (see p1), and a grant of planning for an 83-bed hotel at the corner of Windsor Hill, backed by the owners of the adjacent Brú bar, plus a corner building just sold at the very end of MacCurtain Street, with six apartments and ground floor office/surgery, which made €575,00 via Marshs and has been just been upgraded by a private investor buyer.
