House of the week: Crosshaven, Cork Harbour

NAMED after the fictional Elven location Rivendell, in several of the creative works of JRR Tolkien, including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, is this entirely down to earth, well-built and solidly anchored family home, in Cork harbour’s Crosshaven.

Set above the boatyard site and just off the Camden Road, looking west along the Owenabue estuary over massed masts and many millions of euros worth of berthed boats, this Rivendelle dates not to the second age of Middle Earth, but to 1996, when its current owners bought a double site, next to the Ardcross Crosshaven development of bungalows.