House of the week

Designs on a high-class, high standard house? Tommy Barker says Bramley Lodge could be the apple of your eye

There’s sheer elegance to Bramley Lodge, a large one-off family home built 20 years ago on a height, hovering over Cork City’s outer regions, above the old landmark railway feature the Viaduct.

Built large, in a splayed shape and to a high standard, to a design by architects Roderick Hogan Associates, this is a new-to-market offering that comes straight in at the upper end. It’s guided at €750,000 by Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing, who says it’s immaculately finished, and sumptuously specified. Not only that, but its three acres of ground sets it in a different league also, for those who like space, and lots of it.