Movie buff’s bungalow in the frame for auction

ONE of those rare events in Cork city, a house auction, is due to take place next month for a bungalow on a large site at Uam Var Drive, Curraheen, Cork.

Boarded up and enclosed by tall trees (there’s a reason why Leylandii are despised), No 13 is certainly not ready for its close-up.

However, it was the home of an ardent movie buff — walls are hidden behind stacks of video cases and there are film books everywhere: what the executors plan to do with them, remains to be seen. The house, though, will get the fast sale treatment and Darragh Taaffe of Keane Mahony Smith is taking this three-bed detached property to auction October 7. And although the interior is a bit of a Nightmare at Uam Var at the moment, (the boarding lets no light through), and there’s furniture and fittings everywhere, the house itself seems to be in good structural order.