A refreshingly different design for homes scheme

FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

Refreshingly different house designs on the sloping landscaped site are an eye-catcher, while the realisation that some of the houses have as many as six internal levels —thanks to the return feature —helps to create varying living zones in each house.

Contemporary architecture is by Hogan Associates and the houses are on a site that has retained mature oak and beech trees in a rolling demesne landscape overlooking the wooded Glanmire valley, the Glashaboy and the Lee rivers. It will draw buyers to what could be the best new development for a while north of the Lee.