House of the week

A HOUSE to put the romance back into a property overhaul is set to make early New Year waves — if it can be bought for anything near its tempting guide.

In a bit of a sorry state right now is Wood House, on Cork’s Rochestown Road, a Victorian home that has rapidly fallen on hard times, but will rise again.

Its advantages and strong selling points massively outweigh any drawbacks: it has 5,000sq ft of space on about seven acres, with Cork harbour views from every part of a hill-slope site less than 1km from Rochestown village towards Passage.