Moving on: Time to put that deposit Downs at Abbottswood — it’s divine

Tommy Barker finds a mellowing home in an American-looking scheme.

REALLY good gardens, expensively landscaped, are the crowing glory at 3 Abbottswood Downs, a four-bed family home on a surprising quarter acre site above Monastery Road, in Cork’s Rochestown.

Now neary a decade old and mellowing nicely, the big, trading-up homes here in this section of a Fleming Construction scheme have a tangible American look to their exteriors, thanks perhaps to their all-brick facades: they wouldn’t look out of place in a Boston suburb.