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.