Weir a bonus with Lee Cottage

WE’RE here, because weir here? Pitched nicely just above the river-spanning weir at Cork’s Lee Fields is No 1, Lee Cottages, a perfectly placed wee home with southerly views over the visually beguiling weir water feature and fish pass.

Adjoining the Lee waterworks treatment plant (and now, also a piece of industrial archaeology, with the adjacent LifeTime Lab a popular visitor attraction) is this terraced house, now all done up and turned upside down in its internal accommodation to catch those river and weir views from its new, smart first floor living space.

The attractive south-facing and river-oriented terrace (built in the 1800s for the waterworks’ employees) here has six homes, and No 1 at the city end, is a brand-new, New Year market arrival which carries three centuries of history — the Victorian 19th, the 20th, and now a 21st century revamp — with it.