Co Limerick: €3mA Georgian-style family home built six years ago has everything from a library to a gym, writes Frances O'Rourke
A Limerick builder went to a lot of trouble six years ago when he wanted a Georgian country house: he built it himself.
He fitted it out with details like traditional red-and-black quarry tiles in the kitchen and sash windows with shutters in reception rooms to make it look authentic.
Now Longfield, his family's Georgian-style home on seven acres at Lisnagry, nine miles from Limerick city, is for sale by private treaty through joint agents Ganly Walters and Sherry FitzGerald O'Malley for €3 million.
The 510sq m (5,489sq ft) house comes with a separate 90sq m (969sq ft) three-bedroom apartment, accessed through a courtyard with three stables.
It's style may be traditional, but of course it has all modern comforts, like en suites with four of the five bedrooms and a gym in the main house.
Accommodation in the main house includes three reception rooms, a library, sunroom, study, even a boot room downstairs - as well as the quarry-tiled kitchen which has shuttered sash windows, granite worktops, a Stanley oil-fired oven as well as Zanussi twin ovens with electric hobs.
Upstairs, as well as the five carpeted bedrooms there's also a "loft entertainment room" with a wooden floor.
Outside, wrought-iron gates open onto an avenue leading to the front of the house. An enclosed garden has an array of mature trees and shrubs at the side of the property, and two permanent gzaebos. There are three paddocks on the seven acres.
