Suburban cottage offers potential for its valuable site

WHAT with the appetite to build bright, shiny and efficient new homes, it looks like this Model Farm Road cottage is a goner.

Set just off one of Cork city’s most popular residential locations, the old-style cottage on a valuable eighth of an acre site is already catching the eye of would-be, one-off home builders, who are looking beyond the existing rather mundane four walls to something a bit more grand.

Estate agent Darragh Taaffe of Keane Mahony Smith is getting lots of calls for the property, set between the up-market Hayfield development and the Irish Guide Dogs HQ. He seeks €450,000 and has it under offer at about €380,000.