Timbers inside and out

AUCTIONEER Stephen Clarke is bidding fair to be ‘Demesne Man,’ aka the main man, in house sales in Monkstown’s wooded demesne.

As he brings this bespoke big detached one-off home to a summer market, Mr Clarke already has a nearby courtyard cottage renovation (it featured here last month) under early offer in the shadow of restored Monkstown Castle near the €400,000 mark. And, Clarke has also just bagged the last completed sale in this Cork harbour demesne location of about three dozen individual houses, successfully selling a c 2,000 sq ft home for a sub €1 million sum in this fairly niche, up-market setting.

Bigger, and dearer again, is the €1.25m AMV now pinned to another Monkstown Demesne house, Winterwood.