Trading up: Bishopstown, Cork, €295,000

Sq m:139 (1,500 sq ft)

The word ‘garret’ doesn’t often get an airing in these pages — so, welcome to a Bishopstown garret.

This extended family home at Brampton Court, in Cork city’s western suburbs, has a distinctive mansard roof, of a style pioneered in France as far back as the 1500s, and popular since in several guises and reinventions.