CO WICKLOW €2.275M:VARTRY BRIDGE - a four-bed house with stables and separate studio on 14 acres near Ashford, Co Wicklow - is for sale by private treaty through McDonnell Properties for €2.275 million.

The 214sq m (2,300sq ft) house was built 12 years ago by the present owners on a site with views across a rolling valley and Devil's Glen Wood. They are now moving to west Cork to bring up their family.

A square hall with wooden staircase opens into all the main areas of the house. The centre of which is a large family kitchen with windows facing east and south and French doors out to a covered terrace facing a small lavender garden. There is an Aga as well as a separate hob and oven. Units are bespoke and painted in Farrow & Ball's Pigeon and worktops are maple. A deep armchair beside the Aga makes a cosy statement and there is a cushioned windowseat with south-facing views.

A walk-in larder, spacious utility and downstairs cloakroom take most of the messy kitchen business from this lovely room. The livingroom is off the kitchen, a smaller, very comfortable space with a large window facing south and a smaller one west. Polished wooden floorboards and a sleeper mantelpiece give a warm atmosphere with a black wood-burning stove inset into the fireplace.

Upstairs, two large en suite bedrooms are set into the dormer roof, the main one with a dressing room and a balcony.

The family bathroom is also at this level and is a charming room.

There are two bedrooms downstairs, a large double and a single.

Outside, there a little vegetable garden with beech hedging enclosing four raised beds, a gravelled drive and parking area, and a winding path towards the stables.

The glass and wood studio with deep pitched roof is set among daffodils against old trees and is a gorgeous retreat as either a home office or guest cottage.

The stables include four boxes, mare and foal stable, tack room, as well as a large open barn for shelter with access to pasture and the stream at the bottom of the fields. Ashford and the motorway are only a few minutes away.

Vartry Bridge, near Ashford, Co Wicklow
Four-bedroom house with 214sq m (2,300sq ft) of space built 12 years ago on 14 acres with stables and studio and views across a valley and the Devil's Glen Wood. It also includes a vegetable garden with beech hedging and a winding driveway.
Agent: McDonnell Properties.