A penthouse for the super-prime market

A top floor three-bed apartment in the sharply angular Lancaster Gate scheme has intriguing aspects.

19 The Sherkin, a three-bed apartment in the sharply angular apartment block at Lancaster Gate, Cork

“They won’t be building apartments like this ever again in Cork,” asserts the owner of this city-centre penthouse apartment, back to market with a €1 million price guide — and, that’s almost exactly what it first sold for, brand new, back in 2007, before the financial, property and construction meltdown.