A beautiful transformation: A small house with a big heart

Tommy Barker visits a small home with a huge heart, upgraded after a quarter of a century unlived in.

When the owner of 29, St Mary’s Terrace went for a look-see at the property in 2013, it seemed somewhat frozen in aspic, preserved in a time warp from decades earlier. Even the calendar in the kitchen of this Midleton town home read 1989, with not a page since turned: that’s hardly surprising, as the property had been unlived in for a quarter of a century.