House of the Week: 23 Geraldine Place

SINCE No 23 Geraldine Place last sold, back in 2010, the world around this niche Cork city setting has seemingly come back to rights.

There’s a confident swagger once more about Cork’s old docks renewal, for starters, and the most obvious example is the O’Callaghan Properties Navigation Square development now on site, and gone deep underground, to provide 350,000 sq ft of new offices on Albert Quay.

Able to accommodate up to 3,000 workers, it’s 250 metres, at most, from Geraldine Place, which is part of the nexus of narrow, characterful (think Coronation Street) inner city streets off Albert Road, by Marina Terrace and Hibernian Buildings.