Deft design fuses engineering detail with architectural inspiration

BUILT in the late 1990s, and in the same ownership since, this Ringacoltig home on Cork’s Great Island has all the marks of being designed and built by someone ‘in the know’.

It turns out that one of the vendors is indeed an engineer, and one with even more of a visual flair than most in this line of business: ‘engineer-designed’ contrasts with ‘architect-designed’ but here the inspiration and description covers both bases.

The one-off 3,100 sq ft home is on a private site between Rushbrook and Cobh in Cork harbour, in a spot which houses quite a few individual one-offs.