House of the Week

Know the way some houses unexpectedly grow on you?

Well, 2 Millfield, a hideaway house off Cork’s College Road, is one of those. One minute spent inside, and you’re intrigued.

It isn’t even that you have to see past anything to see potential, it’s already here, just in need of scrubbing up. In a day when so many houses of this late 1940s vintage need significant overhauls, the good news at No 2 is that all the basics here are good, you could get away with repainting, maybe a bit of wallpaper, and some decent furniture.