Trading up: Bishopstown, Cork, €295,000
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.
Essentially, a mansard roof steps down from the roof ridge in two planes, rather than one, and allows for the maximum amount of head room and floor space in what otherwise might have been a dormer approach, while still keeping overall house/roof-ridge height reasonably low. And, the space under a mansard roof is typically (in Continental Europe at least) referred to as a garret.
Sporting its mansard or gambrel roof credentials, complete with windows in the roof ’s steeper pitch is 29 Brampton Court, but it has been altered further behind by virtue of a deep, lean-to extension so that now there’s 1,500 sq ft for a new family of owners to colonise.
Auctioneer Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald guides at €295,000, and says it is in very good condition.
Location makes it ideal for traders up, but there’s no back lawn.
