House of the week

HOUSES in Cork’s Sidney Park are embedded in the city’s veins of sandstone, rising in serried ranks from the side of St Patrick’s Hill up towards the grounds of the former St Patrick’s Hospital. And top of the pile is Knockmahon.

Originally rather grandly — or just honestly? — called Grand View, this mid-1900s home is new to market for the first time in decades and could be a cracker of a purchase.

Seeking offers around €550,000, estate agent Andrew Moore reckons that “it’s probably the best house in this most favoured area.” It’s got the uppermost and largest site, thus the highest elevation and the best views — and has been fully redecorated, wired and replumbed in the past two years, gratis of work needed after a burst water tank in a recent frosty winter.