You’ll be snookered by the choices at this seaside labour of love

IS IT because this house has undergone such a metamorphosis that its vendors call it Franz Kafka House?

Kafka’s story Metamorphosis is one of literature’s classics: the house with the author’s name too has seen a flow of changes.

Built on an acre site by the sea, safe beach and tennis club in Fountainstown in Cork, this bungalow home at Sand Road has extended to cover 2,600 sq ft of well-finished living space. And then it goes on, and on, and on, across square yards of patio and brick paviors. In fact, the vendors reckon there is over 40,000 worth of patios and paving gone around Franz Kafka House.