House of the week: Glenaknockaun West, Waterford, €235,000

Jim Stack came across veteran architect Peter Legge, at the RIAI/Simon Open Door event in 2012, at a time when Legge & Associates’ reconstruction of two conjoined stacked stone cottages in Connemara, was causing enormous interest.

Having bought a charming but heavily degraded cottage and outbuilding in The Vee, near Lismore in west Waterford, Jim was intrigued by Legge’s sympathetic restraint. Today, this cottage cluster in Glenaknockaun West, offers buyers who might otherwise have been priced out of the field, the chance to buy a solid piece of work at €235,000.

With the design imprint of Peter Legge and with 1,750 sq ft set out in three distinct volumes at the gateway of one of Ireland’s most beautiful mountain ranges, it’s a fascinating prospect, bound to cause interest.