House of the week: Douglas, Cork €395,000

Size: 155 sq m (1,730 sq ft)

IT’S called Trabeg Lodge, but its bigger (and better) than the modest-sounding word ‘lodge’ might indicate. In fact, it has over 1,700 sq ft within its red-brick walls, both old new.

This is a house of two halves, one original and old, at least 100 years most likely, and it was at least doubled in size in the 1990s by a family who moved to West Cork after doing a smart, matching extension update.