The Elms in Rochestown is bristling with potential

Tommy Barker says this well-placed elevated oasis is in need of an architect’s eye to bring it back to life.

ROMANTICS only need apply, to come to view The Elms – hard-hearted pragmatists who’d rather knock than cherish and replenish should stay away from this home on a hill, with lots and lots to recommend it but in need of more than TLC.

“It would be a real pity to demolish it, there’s something very special about this place,” says selling agent Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, with Sherry Fitz’s MD Sheila O’Flynn, as they pitch this quaint, old fashioned, wee detached early 1900s home, on a rare slice of Cork’s elevated Rochestown land at Underwood.