House of the week: A good ‘un, in a small parcel

Glasheen Road, Cork: Three goes into two, and quite nicely too, at this super-handily set end-terrace home, where the owner of 15, Liam Lynch Park, converted her once-three-bed purchase into a far more comfortable, fully upgraded home, and reduced the bedroom tally to just two.

She’s definitely proven that less can be more by the way the house, which is almost on the doorstep of the enormous CUH/MUH medical campus, has turned out. Likely to date to the 1940s and into the ‘50s and always modest sized, it has just a shade over 800 sq ft, and so original room sizes would have been small.

Now, though, the main living room is effectively one long stretch, from front to back, almost 22’ long, and about 10’ wide, with side hall, and a galley kitchen off in a back corner.