House of the week

If this high-end, West Cork house looks familiar, it’s because it graced these pages a year ago as a stand-out example of quality contemporary architecture (delivered by Germans) in part of the south’s most wonderful landscape.

Now that it has come up for sale in summer 2012, guiding €2m, it’s worth revaluation. Still gorgeous, covetable, exemplary. Now, for the couple of mill...

As one of West Cork’s best-finished homes, on a decent 39 acres of wildlife-friendly grounds planted up with 3,500 trees, and graced by new lakes and ancient headlands and Toe Head, this coastal home is eye-catching yet low-key, and is getting most viewing attention so far from the UK, say joint selling agents Charles P McCarthy in nearby Skibbereen, and Savills in Cork City.The air at this sort of price level is fairly thin in Ireland and Cork right now, irrespective of how much it cost to build and finish to this standard and specification.