Plenty of potential in Beaumont

IT MAY be good enough as it stands, but there’s scope for a whole lot of more at 42 Beaumont Crescent in Cork’s tranquil Ballintemple/Blackrock suburb.

Beaumont is broadly characterised by swirls and eddies of mid-1900s semis, some of them now massively extended. Any property with a corner site has added value, if not a new house already built on it.

The Crescent is one of Beaumont’s more interesting enclaves, and a few modern whoppers have been put up in the last five years, some in place of older houses that made way for grander ambitions.