Property that's more English than the English themselves

THERE’S timber, and then further up the scale there’s lumber. Dromore Barn is a lumbering giant, and a roadside West Cork oddity.

Elizabethan or Tudor barns, a statement of affluence, never really made it to Ireland: what we got was stone and slate, and, more latterly, galvanised steel framing.

Instead, the Tudor touches here in the architectural firmament were generally confined to a bit of faux timber framing and a lattice of lead striping on window panes.