House of the week

MOVE straight in? Extend? Knock? Don’t be hasty.

Elevated Ardbrack in Kinsale was one of Cork’s first locations where sites were so prized that almost anything built there more than a couple of decades old was considered inferior to the setting. The local cliche quickly became “you’re no-one if you haven’t knocked and rebuilt.”

That Ardbrack sentiment sort of became contagious around Munster during the boom, although the days of wanton demolition for grander plans are more or less over for most property sales.