Timeless gemin genteel suburban setting

With award-winning gardens and a tennis court, this Rochestown Road, Cork, property ticks all the right boxes, says Tommy Barker

OPPORTUNITIES to buy Cork homes as good as this Rochestown Road property come along only rarely. Oh, about once in a lifetime — it’s about as an idealised (and realised) a vision of the good life as many would hope for.

Built in 1939, as an almost textbook-perfect example of the Arts and Crafts/Tudor revival, it’s one of the southern area’s very best property packages, a large family home of huge character and build integrity, on award-winning and much-admired (by the horticultural cognoscenti) gardens of three acres, which include a tennis court.