Rockfield House, an elegant 18th century house on 250 acres of arable land on the edge of Kells, Co Meath, will be auctioned by Gunne next month with a guide price of £2.2 million. This was built by the local Rothwell family, one of whom married a Fitzherbert heiress. The house has extensive accommodation on the ground floor as well as seven bedrooms on the first floor.

There are 12 rooms on the second floor, which need refurbishing; it is currently treated as an attic. They could provide extra bedrooms or a separate staff apartment. A curved stone staircase to the first floor is off the entrance hallway. The hall has a period grey marble fireplace and a stone flagged floor. At this level there is a sittingroom with period fireplace, a morning room, family room with conservatory off, a double bedroom, bathroom and a big country kitchen with an Aga cooker. A library on the first floor has a marble fireplace and decorative cornicing. The spacious main bedroom was the original drawingroom and has a bathroom en suite. Five further bedrooms, some of which have period fireplaces and two bathrooms, are also on this floor.

The lands of Rockfield House, currently all in pasture, are level and laid out in divisions with a shelter belt of mature timber on the eastern side.