Simple, serene, stunning addition to the landscape

This modern homestead enhances a slice of pastoral paradise, by blending into the landscape. Tommy Barker reports

A FEW signal things stand out about this new-build, west Cork home which replaced an unlovely 1900s block farmhouse.

First, and foremost, it’s just gorgeous. Simple, serene, sympathetic. Stunning, yet understated. It’s an adornment to an exceptionally beautiful landscape: it’s usually pushing it a bit to say a house adds visually to its setting, especially when that place is one of the most beautiful routes around a gentle, pastoral part of a county famed far and wide for its coastline. But, add to its setting it certainly does.