Trading up: Garryvoe, East Cork €220,000

Sq m: 139 (1,495 sq ft)

What must have been a sort of Grand Designs contemporary chalet build of, oh, say 50 years or so ago, could once more be something quite special; the site alone is worth working further wonders on.

There’s 1.75 acres of beach-front grounds at Ballinwinning, near Garryvoe and Ballycotton in East Cork, home to this very distinctive, grouped boxes sort of flat roof shape chalet, all timber clad — not too unlike many current ‘contemporary’ designs, in an earlier way.