Coastal bungalow step in right direction with elevated views

FINISHED only in the last few months, a coastal bungalow built by an architect has been designed to hide its relative bulk under not one, two but three stepped sections, with a few bedrooms tucked away out the back as well for good measure.

Set right in the go-ahead village of Ardfield, near Clonakilty in West Cork, which is now building a general purpose hall to go with its new GAA pitch, it is a four-bedroomed, single storey house with great but relatively distant sea views to the Galley Head and lighthouse, as well as Castlefreke’s dwindling woods from its front rooms.

It runs to over 1,700 sq ft, but appears almost cottage proportioned from its front elevation thanks to the deliberate design by its designer Michael O’Leary.