Trading Up: Old Blackrock Road, Cork €275,000 (auction)

There’s one stand out house at next month’s DNG Creedon auction of 44 properties in Cork — and it’s a biggie, even if it’s not quite yet beautiful.

Due under the auction hammer is Maryland, also known as 1 & 1A Knockrea Terrace, an end-terrace house currently split into two dwellings, totalling eight bedrooms.

But, given its location off the Old Blackrock Road by the South Infirmary hospital, and the site’s area 0.345 of an acre, it could stay as two — or revert to one large private home, on an unusually large site a five minute walk from City Hall.