Upgraded house reaches the crest of modernity

THE CREST is well-named. You climb up a hill at Upper Cloghroe, near Tower in Co Cork and, as the road levels, amid a string of bungalows, you find a property which with views over the valley.

The ‘For Sale’ sign gives the location, as you can’t really see the property behind its high hedges. Drive in and you get the impression of neat, but rather unremarkable bungalow - until you get inside the door and then you see that The Crest has been given The Swan treatment.

Dragged kicking and screaming from the 1970s to the Noughties, this four-bed, brick-built bungalow has had collagen implants, (blown insulation to bring up the U value), a brow lift with new windows, internal refiguring and some very hip additions, not least the Berloni kitchen and wall mounted radiator in the hallway.