Joined at the hip house is ideal for a family

DO you call them detached, or not? As near as dammit to detached status are the O’Flynn Construction houses in Kiltegan, Rochestown in Cork, and the same style also crops up across the city on the Model Farm Road in Rossbrook.

Effectively joined at the hip, these good-sized late 1980s family homes are attached by their garages to the houses next door.

It’s a smart compromise at a time when site and land values are so high; being able to get houses closer together, still have a garage with each, and yet not impinge on essential privacy by reducing the conduits for noise transfer through the so-called party walls.

Up for sale with Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing is 43 Kiltegan Lawn, in off the left hand side of the big Kiltegan, Rochestown Road development, built on the former farmland grounds of the monastery, along the side of what’s now Cork’s South Ring Road, while the original religious order building is now the constantly expanding Rochestown Park Hotel.

No 43 is a four-bed home, previously an investment property but in very good decorative order, says the selling agent, who guides it at €575,000 and says with its convertible garage, it would be “an ideal family home.”

Inside, there’s a hall with guest WC under the stairs, living room, dining room, kitchen with light oak units, with utility behind linking into the 15’ by 8’ garage.

Overhead, there are four bedrooms, one en suite and a main bathroom.

Heating is via gas, and windows are teak-framed and there’s side access to the rear garden, with off-street parking.