Wicklow town: €1m: A Georgian house on one acre has been returned to its former glory with a great sense of style, reports Anne Dempsey
With a stylish, romantic interior which has been featured in Image Interiors magazine, Bollarney House, Bollarney, Wicklow is a 300-year-old Georgian detached house on an acre located just minutes by foot from Wicklow's main street.
It is for sale by private treaty with Lennox Estates in Bray, Co Wicklow guiding €1 million.
When the vendors bought the house 10 years ago, they embarked on an extensive and sympathetic restoration which included reclaiming the garden level and building on a conservatory.
Original panelled doors, pine floors, staircase and sash windows remain while 240 sq m (2,586 sq ft) of internal accommodation has been rearranged over four floors to provide three reception rooms, four bedrooms and two bathrooms plus a small music room cum library.
Standing in the arched reception hall area, the eye is drawn to the stairs curving up to the first floor return and down to garden level.
To the right is a bright drawingroom with original pine floor, two large deep windows and period fireplace with slate surround.
To the left is a diningroom with period fireplace.
A rectangular-shaped room is used as a music room cum library and could be a small office. The extensive garden level comprises a hallway, sittingroom, kitchen with separate breakfastroom, conservatory and cellar.
The attractive sittingroom has a painted timber floor, and a solid fuel stove set in a brick ingle arch.
Glazed doors lead to a quarry- floored conservatory with doors to the garden and hall.
A large breakfastroom has a four-oven green Aga cooker, island unit, Belfast sink, and original brick walls painted white.
An arch leads through to a large L-shaped kitchen designed with the serious cook in mind.
The room has a quarry-tiled floor and a range of free-standing display and storage units which complement the original brick.
The cellar is plumbed for a dryer.
The guest wing on the hall return has a bedroom with polished beechwood floor and a separate panelled bathroom which has bags of charm and a period suite.
There are recessed curved wall cupboards on either side of the staircase as it climbs to the first floor where there are three further bedrooms, one with a good sized en suite bathroom which is also accessible from the landing.
Outside, a pedestrian entrance leads to the hall door steps while a separate vehicular entrance has a large private gravelled courtyard, with carport and original old stone outhouse.
The informal country garden has a lawn area with a gravel path fringed with flower beds, including some rare plants.
The path then meanders across a bridge over a stream into a large secluded orchard area with some specimen trees.
In addition, a further inner lawn catches up again with the small chattering stream.