Investors gallop to 18th century coachhouse

THE time to drive a literal or even metaphorical coach and horses through 13 Marguerita Villas has passed — it is set for a sympathetic renewal.

The former early Georgian coachhouse, reckoned to date to the mid to late 1700s, is in one of Cork's most steeped in history areas, under the shadow of St Fin Barre's Cathedral and near Elizabeth Fort off Barrack Street.

It pre-dates Burges' cathedral one of Cork's city's prettiest architectural confections by a century or so, and even though it is not officially a protected structure, it is likely to be 'minded' now in any planning application for changes.