House of the week: Aghada, Cork Harbour €395,000

Size: Sq m 233 (2,500 sq ft)

There’s a curious note to the 1960/’70s architectural classic called Hadwell Heights in Cork’s Aghada — along with the fact it is being sold by a Count John McCormack, a grandson of the world-famous Irish tenor, and who inherited his Papal title. Businessman John McCormack relocated to Cork from Dublin over a decade ago, and he and his wife Sylvia fell for the charms of this harbour home in Aghada.

In a pattern which later Irish architects have found themselves repeating in the past decade of slump, the Irish designer of this house first got his international experience while working in Canada — and brought back then-innovative design ideas.