House of the Week

THE spot occupied by this elegant home, Fenton, is, it could be said, in a parallel universe, a garden oasis filled with birdsong in lieu of traffic snarl, sandwiched between Cork city’s Blackrock and Boreenmanna roads.

Life trundles on along both these parallel suburban roads, so close to the city centre — but here, in Ashton Park, it all slows down.

Dating to about 1940, and with quite modest exterior proportions, the detached five-bed home was built using great craftmanship, and fine materials by Meagher and Hayes, who built Cork’s Savoy cinema, and the fourth Art Deco Theatre Royal in Dublin.