A beauty with character on tap

THEY must be among the largest houses in the city, and this imposing, red-brick row on Cork’s Western Road is mostly used for guest accommodation, save for No 3.

A family home, the four-storey, mid-row Victorian was made into flats in the past, but with minimal disturbance to the structure — a couple of stud partitions.

There’s no getting around the parlous state, the leaking roof, fractured wall — but you can’t but be impressed by its size. What this house must have been like in its day. A listing pair of leather dining chairs, two club armchairs and a tatty table are all that’s left of the grand old residence — shame.