House of the Week: Ballintemple, Cork, €725,000

YOU don’t need to get yourself to a nunnery, in the ‘hamlet’ village of Cork’s Ballintemple, a spot where a rare house sale has come along, right on the doorstep of the Ardfoyle Convent campus.

Rare as anything are house resales along genteel Ardfoyle Avenue and the even grander Edwardian types on Ardfoyle Crescent: they are ‘for keeps’, and generally get passed down along family hands.

Now, into this rarefied echelon sails the detached four-bed home Coolscart, very original and true to its 1930s roots, and although it carries an asking price of €725,000 in its basic state, and will need lots of updating, it’s set to have quite a posse in pursuit.