LOOK past the dark, battleship grey interior colour, and past some of the odd, internal ‘improvements’, and you will see what a fine period Victorian family house that number 5, Park Villas, on Cork city’s Victoria Road, could become.

HOW high will the high house go? A slender and elegant three-storey Victorian house, Trefusis, on the Victoria Road in Cork city, has caused a flurry of viewings since the For Sale sign hit the front pillars last week — 45 viewers in an hour at open viewing on day one, and a couple of dozen more on day two.