Mellow brick and sunrooms at Douglas homes with estuary view

IN 2003, as the property market began to accelerate, a house and site on the Well Road, Douglas, Cork, went on the market at offers in excess of €500,000.

Manakin was a substantial two-storey house, but its site ran to a half acre, with frontage onto the Well Road and Lake Lawn.

The property was bought for close to €700,000 and changed hands again as part of a site accumulation that brought the total area to a little less than an acre.