House of the week: Cork's a city rising under St Luke's Cross home

THERE’S a set-back charm, on the double, to sunnily set 66, Wellington Road, in Cork city’s genteel (or, at least, regentrifying) St Luke’s Cross, between the city centre and Montenotte.

The sizeable, semi-detached period No 66, called Mount Verdon House, dating to the cusp of Georgian era architecture turning to Victorian affluence, is one of a pair of notable homes straddling sloping, south-facing grounds between Summerhill North, and Wellington Road, with both Nos 65 and 66 having gated access at either extremity.