Starter homes: Quirky rooms in two apartments over three old city quarter floors

Location: Cork city

No 17 Nicholas Street, in the very heart of old Cork City off Douglas Street in the South Parish is a bit of an oddity — it’s two in one.

Looking for all the world like a two-up, two down, it is in fact two one-bed apartments, over three floors in all, with some quirky rooms and a walled-in back garden with bit of an old shed at its end.