Dig deep and reap the reward in Wilton home

Tommy Barker visits a generously-proportioned home in Wilton, Cork, which has been upgraded with the addition of a big, bright, warm lower ground floor

TO traditional Irish minds, going down under your home to excavate a basement is very much a London sort of thing to do, or, at a push, it’s an option for the better-heeled in leafy south Dublin suburbs to consider

But the slightly unusual and particular topography at the back of a short run of houses along Cork’s Wilton Road left just such a digging-down option open to the young family, who’d bought here at Verona, for the sake of convenience, back in 2003