House of the Week: Douglas, Cork €450,000

Douglas Road, Cork

Built on market gardens associated with a large Endsleigh house along Cork’s (now) suburban main Douglas road, No 1 Endsleigh Gardens is a bit of a treasure — once you find it.

Built just as the Second World War was starting in 1939, it’s a semi-detached cottage hidden from the main road near Douglas village, by Regina Mundi girls’ secondary school, in a mini-oasis of greenery, sharing its discreet and leafy access avenue with just one other adjoining house, which also has been upgraded and even more extended.