Take a leaf out of Frankfort’s look

CONSIDERABLY and quite smartly extended, Frankfort, a five-bedroomed semi-d on Cork’s Cross Douglas Road packs quite a punch, and comes with a €650,000 asking price via agent Conor P Flynn.

Set at the South Douglas Road end of a linking road with a huge range of house types, from Victorian and Edwardian homes to bungalows, post-war semis and apartment blocks, this is a family home par excellence, with a fifth bedroom tucked away at attic level, and with a good array of ground floor accommodation as well. It conceals its spread of space probably too well, thanks to the cloak of ivy and screen of mature trees on the front.

Behind, the house has been added to quite a bit, but not so much as to gobble all of the west-facing garden.