Ingenious use of space on a corner site

SUBURBAN gardens can throw up some rich crop pickings — and the house Kirribilli is one case in point.

Called after a district of Sydney in Australia where the occupants had once lived, this two-year old home was built on a corner garden site of a family home on Melbourn Road (not Melbourne, as in the Australian city spelling) in Bishopstown in Cork.

Behind the move, the build and the decision to move on again was a professional in the building industry, a quantity surveyor, who put his expertise to work in delivering this large home on a compact but key-location site.