The gates are open for a large family at Dundanion House

On Cork City’s Blackrock Road, Dundanion House has had commercial uses for 50 years, but would be a ‘grand’ home, says Tommy Barker.

Dundanion is a sort of modest mansion, built in the 1830s as a private residence for one of Cork’s most noted classical architects, Sir Thomas Deane

The main Dundanion House is about 9,200 sq ft, including the basement, and if a family lived here, they’d hardly need any of the downstairs