The Great House Revival

Hugh Wallace meets people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms.

Homeowner Murray Rees has ambitious plans, as architect Hugh Wallace oversees restoration of an elegant old townhouse in North Inner City Dublin.

A couple transform a derelict 19th-century schoolhouse in Cavan into a new home by building a timber-clad extension, but find that it was made for functionality not comfort.

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.

Architect Hugh Wallace meets a couple who have bought an old farmhouse and agricultural outbuildings in Rathrum, Co Wicklow, which need extensive restoration work.

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.