Rochestown Road, Cork, €260,000

To those of a certain age, Rochestown’s Delford Drive will still seem like quite a ‘new’ location, but it’s now in or around its 30th birthday as a residential location.

And, the intervening years/decades has shown just how much house ‘extras’ have become the homefront ‘norm’.

Built by the former Rochestown Road grounds of Kiltegan Seminary College (originally Sutton House, and now the Rochestown Park Hotel), Delford came along in the 1980s along with then-fledgling estates like Kiltegan, Wainsfort and Newlyn Vale.