Make sure you see the wood from the trees, think ‘Rich’, no glitch

SORT of at the vanguard of a shift in thinking about building and the environment in its day, is this Richmond Wood home in Cork’s Glanmire.

Not only is it set in a quite exceptional woodland glade, its basic building material is also wood, in the form of timber framing.

Built around, 1990, this 1,900 sq ft dormer home with up to five bedrooms is in a prized, wooded section of the Richmond development just up the hill from Glanmire’s church and the Hazelwood shopping centres. There’s just about a dozen and a half individually built, one-offs set into the mature woodland — mostly beech trees — here, while the rest of popular Richmond houses are in more open, albeit landscaped terrain.