Georgian beauty just needs a little love and a lot of plumbing

THERE are three-bed semis, and three-bed semis – and within that broad spectrum, No 1 Adelaide Place, Cork is in a niche of its own.

Georgian in every feel and respect, but possibly built more solidly in the Victorian era, the period city home, with its private courtyard gardens, and lofted stone mews coachhouse (see p1 thumbprint), is an intact period gem, that just needs a bit warming up.

Its location is at the foot of Gardiner’s Hill at St Luke’s Cross, a sort of hilly half-way base camp for along the upward trajectory out through the old Cork city suburbs, yet a short walk back to town.