HOUSE OF THE WEEK

Tidy up, extend, build on top — or knock, and start again? All those options are solidly to hand at the well-built Kilrohan, a hideaway on a lovely Model Farm Road site just west of Cork city’s suburbs.

There’s money, to be sure, chasing the best stock and sites in this location, with the Price Register showing sales as high as €975,0000, €1.35m and €1.5m paid in the last three years for the road’s best homes, most of them sold and bought by medics.

Just behind Kilrohan is/was Rockrohan Court, where an original 1960s pavilion-type single-storey 3,000 sq ft architect-designed home on over two acres has now been demolished, and is being replaced by a very tall, contemporary new-build — a replacement architectural statement for a new, more energy-efficient era. It’s got the Wow! factor, aided and abetted by the fact that two-acre house/site was bought for almost €1.4m.