IT’S not until you drive up that you get the full impact of Abbotswood, in Rochestown, Co Cork. The fact they climb up a hill adds to their impressive standing: these are big houses, even in the smaller types.

BUILT only four years, the large family home 18 Abbotswood Downs in Cork is being sold by its US business executive owner, and leaves little for any new occupants to do other than pay up and move in.