Superb site set for large detached house

IT almost has it all: gardens of a quarter of an acre, walled with old limestone boundaries, once an orchard; an address to match, The Paddocks, on Crab Lane. Drawback? You'll have to provide the house yourself.

Hitting the market with an initial asking price of €700,000 is this site for a single, detached dwelling. It is the second property in on Crab Lane from the Boreenmanna Road in Cork city, with the Blackrock Road the other book-ender to narrow Crab Lane.

There's the next best thing to a ready-made home here for the upwardly mobile, as the quarter acre site has full planning permission granted for a large detached two-storey home of 3,300 sq ft, designed by Cobh-based architect Stephen Kowalski.