House of the week

There’s a fascinating shape to the rear extension and high-ceilinged add-on to the back of 12 Amberley Green: it’s like its builder or designer folded up the floor plans in an origami style, inserting crisp folds in the roof line along the way.

The jutting shape and indented ceilings — with several handy Veluxes for additional light — would be the making of most extended homes, but No 12 has yet more space to offer, built on the side, and in a more regular, rectangular shape.

As a result of the work done about 10 years ago, No 12 now has about 1,400 sq ft of space. Those who came to view prior to Christmas loved it to bits, says agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who launched the three/four bed family home in Cork’s Grange / Douglas suburb just as most families and house-hunters began to wind down their searches and focus on the holidays.