You can thank William Hague for Brookvale House, an early 19th century period home on Farnham Road, in Cavan town. However, we're not talking about the leader of the British Conservative party, but about the builder, whose son of the same name grew up in the house and went on to become a leading Church architect. Brookvale is for sale by private treaty through Hamilton Osborne King, with a price of £500,000.

Set on 3.5 acres, Brookvale is a light-filled, villa-style house, with four bedrooms and many period features intact, such as decorate tiles, marble chimney-pieces and original joinery and plasterwork.

The house is entered through a modern conservatory, containing a mature vine producing 100 bunches of sweet grapes annually. A glazed timber front door leads into the entrance hall with an ornate ceiling, with steps leading into an inner hall.

Off the hall is the diningroom, which has two windows, like all the downstairs rooms. It has an Italian Marblilite fireplace with tiled insert.

The drawingroom has a similar fireplace, and a ceiling cornice and centre rose, as well as an unusual sash window which turns into a door, and provides direct access to the garden.

The kitchen/breakfastroom has a range of wall and floor units and is partly tiled. It leads into a scullery. Also at this level is a small office and a utility room.

A mahogany staircase leads to the first floor landing with four bedrooms leading off it.

Adjacent to the house at ground floor level is a surgery and waiting room. Outside are two stables in a coach house.

The garden extends to one acre and includes a tennis court. The rest of the land comprises woodlands separated from the garden by the Kinnypottle river, with a bridge leading from the gardens on to an island.