Humble past eclipsed by elegant modern extension

GET in the gate and up to the front door, and you’ll be hooked — so hopes estate agent Victoria Murphy of Hill View, a coastal region Kilbrittain home west of Cork city.

She is selling a four-bed detached home, extended out of an earlier 1940s cottage, but its humble past is behind it.

It has 2,000 sq ft of elegant, understated space with good finishes and workmanship, she says of the €685,000 property, which is open to offers for a speedy sale.