Co Westmeath: €750,000An intriguing 19th century country house, where every owner since it was built has been a medical doctor, is on the market with Sherry FitzGerald Davitt & Davitt.
Guiding €750,000 before auction on October 7th is Ard na Greine, a seven-bedroom Victorian house at Conranstown, near Castletown-Geoghegan in Co Westmeath. The 325 sq m (3,500 sq ft) house stands on two acres of gardens, with a paddock, stabling, a tennis court, boathouse and stone outbuildings to convert.
The current owners, one a doctor (who doesn't work from the house), have rewired, re-plastered and re-plumbed during their time here and used a soft cream and gold colour palette throughout. The result is a very easy house to live in.
A formal sittingroom has a bay window, marble fireplace and ceiling coving. Cupboards in the kitchen/breakfastroom are cream-painted and it has a double Smeg gas hob and a Stanley range. The family sittingroom and library have marble fireplaces.
Five of the seven bedrooms, all doubles, are in the main house. Three include built-in wardrobes and en suite bathrooms. Also off the landing is the family bathroom.
A pretty mews with its own entrance hall would suit a variety of living patterns. This has a sittingroom with open fireplace and diningroom with Stanley log burner, fitted kitchen, bathroom and two medium-sized bedrooms.
The grounds are family-sized, with a walled garden, tennis court, boathouse, gravelled sun trap terrace and stone outbuildings. The location is about 1.5 miles from Lough Ennell and seven miles from Mullingar.
