Immaculately updated farmhouse

AN immaculately updated traditional Irish farmhouse can be yours at Rockmount, near Drimoleague in west Cork, for €379,000.

The 1,700 sq ft two-storey, one-room wide home has been extended with some taste and quiet flair, and a bright add-on to the thick-walled house is a sunny gable end, lean-to conservatory.

That 13’ by 9’ sun room has a glass roof, glazing on two sides and a back wall to soak up a bit of the sun’s heat, and heat saved here by day – unusually, the floor is finished in solid oak, and not tile on concrete which might have served more effectively as a heat sump – can be funnelled into the adjoining 14’ by 14’ living room, which has a Jotul solid fuel stove for evening heat.