The Great House Revival
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50:18Historic re-enactors Liz and Gordon Jones have travelled from Connecticut in the USA to create their retirement home in an Irish castle. It's roofless and looks like it might be blown down by the next gust of wind, but they buy Sigginstown Castle in Co Wexford and spend three years lovingly restoring it.
50:19Linsday and Kevin Deely, their young sons Sam and Tom and their two dogs have left their comfortable suburban home in Oranmore in search of country air and space. They bought a patch of land in Craughwell, which housed what appeared to be a 1980s bungalow and barn. When the cottage turns out to be a traditional cottage wit...
50:10Co Monaghan local Paul McPhillips and Judith Caffrey, from Co Offaly, bought Anderson's pub shop on the quiet main street of Drum. With a purchase price of just 48 thousand Euros it leaves them with a budget of 250 thousand to restore it as their home, while also reinvigorating the village with a cafe and accommodation. If...
49:54Gym manager Kelly and barber Paddy were gifted a patch of land in the small town of Dunleer, Co Louth by Paddy's parents. They plan a comfy new-build, but hidden under a ball of ivy on site, they uncover a towering mill built in the 1830s. It was missing every one of its 43 windows and most of its roof and floors, but the ...
50:04Tiktok star Maryrose Simpson's Nana left her a three-bedroom corner house on the main street in Stradbally, where their family have lived for five generations. Maryrose's father died when she was 12 and she treasured every detail of his family home. But lockdown delays and spiralling prices push her to make hard choices an...
50:34Tech professional Rob Hennessey fell in love with his bargain-price Victorian house on the banks of the Lee the moment he saw it. But with only the slimmest of budgets to patch up its holey floors and rotten joists, he must upskill fast and take on most of the restoration with his own two hands. Over the course of two year...
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Hugh Wallace meets a couple restoring Belvelly Tower House in Cobh, Co Cork, a building that has not been lived in for 400 years. The first challenge is damp-proofing the structure. 52:09 Expired
Architect Hugh Wallace meets a couple who have bought an old farmhouse and agricultural outbuildings in Rathrum, Co Wicklow, which need extensive restoration work. 52:05 Expired
A Donegal woman wants to renovate the derelict historic cottage on the Inishowen Peninsula once owned by her great, great, grandmother, but is faced with a collapsed roof and wall. 51:25 Expired
A couple transform a derelict 19th-century schoolhouse in Cavan into a new home by building a timber-clad extension, but they find that it was made for functionality not comfort. 52:08 Expired
The Sherrard Street House is a unique project where they must faithfully preserve Dublin’s architectural patrimony and celebrate its overlooked 1840s heritage. 52:15 Expired
Hugh Wallace meets people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms.