Something old, something new at Menloe

MENTION Menloe, and Cork’s upwardly mobile house hunters get all misty-eyed: the address sets off alarm bells of covetousness.

But, there are two Menloes, side by side, old and new.

Old Menloe Gardens, with its couple of dozen Garden City 'Domestic Revival' homes around a green, graced by spreading mature chestnut trees, has Blackrock suburban homes worth up to and over the €1 million mark.