Wooden it be nice ...

THE outside might look like a conventional, albeit upmarket dormer bungalow — but the delight is in the detail. Built for his own ends by craftsman joiner John Desmond, Ballady Lodge, on its acre site, near Belgooly, in Co Cork, is a place where you can see the woods, and the trees.

Native ash and whitethorn border this rural, brick-and-stone faced, detached five-bed home, on the Kinsale side of the Cork-Kinsale road.

The house has 3,000 sq ft of space, plus a lofty, detached garage with 800 sq ft of ground-floor space, and 600 sq ft overhead to the rear of the main house.