Onwards, upwards for Kenbrevin

With five bedrooms in a bright spacious Orchard Road property, plus beautiful gardens, what’s not to like, asks Tommy Barker.

THERE’S practically nothing left of the original Orchard Road, Cork, suburban home called Kenbrevin — and, truth be told, there wasn’t much to miss.

An original mid-1900s detached family home more or less bit the demolition dust when it was bought back in the early 2000s by a family returning to Ireland, after a decade living in Edinburgh. With a young, school-going active family, a more modern, spacious and bright home was called for, and got delivered, with a good BER energy rating too, on this prime, plum, suburban site just west of UCC and the Bon Secours hospital.