Feature: Skibbereen €350,000

Size: Sq m 185 (2,000 sq ft)

DO YOU find the images of the converted Lassnaroe Cottage and the adjoining small barn hopelessly romantic? If so, you’re not unique. Not, at least, until you buy it. This quite spectacular West Cork, stone built make-over was done by skilled and serial renovators Peter and Anna Warburton. They started rescuing old and sometimes ruined cottages back in 1994, in and around Skibbereen, and have ten rescues to their credit of which Lassnaroe was the last. It was finished in 2010 and was brought back from a quite parlous state.

They run a very successful business, www.cottagesforcouples.ie, from their own home at Grove House near Skibbereen, promoting romance and accommodation offering guest-night, home-comforts with bells on, like jacuzzis in bedrooms, hottubs under the stars, satellite TV, free bottles of fizz on arrival, petal-strewn beds — and, after that, privacy.