Award-winning €795k Folding House is a Mardyke page-turner

One-off Cork City home with its origami-like creases is ready to embrace a new owner, reports Tommy Barker

The Folding House is screened behind electric gates and high walls on Cork City's Mardyke

Mardyke, Cork City
€795,000
Size	180 sq m 91,940 sq ft)
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	3
BER	Pending

HIDING almost in plain sight is this Cork home of utter architectural distinction called Folding House.

It’s a home with its quality barely glimpsed, most of it enveloped in a sharp, angled shape, an urban oasis of tranquillity, Zen-like calm, and complete city living convenience, on the tree-lined and lovely Mardyke “where we sported and played, ‘neath each green leafy shade....”