New house developments have come a-plenty to the area around Clarkes Hill and Garryduff in Cork’s Rochestown: there may have been as 2,000 homes built in the last few decades ‘round Mount Oval, since the time Hill House Cottage itself was built on its own plot.

There’s a good mix of house types up at the lofty-sounding Kensington address, atop Clarkes Hill in Cork’s Rochestown, built back in the 1970s for the traders-up and the traders-out of that now-distant decade.

Set in a small, well-maintained scheme, this ideal family home has lots to offer, says Tommy Barker.