A builder's love of Georgian design drove him to create a period-style country house in Co Tipperary. Now it's for sale at €3 million, writes Kate McMorrow

When Ganly Walters' country house director Callum Bain first set eyes on Brindley House, he was convinced it had been restored from a Georgian ruin, so perfect were the proportions, so lovely the setting.

He discovered to his astonishment that this accurate Georgian reproduction was the work of a local builder with a burning ambition to prove it could be done.

Ganly Walters is now quoting €3 million by private treaty for the 492sq m (5,300sq ft) country residence, which includes 15 acres of land in three paddocks.

The house, stables, pond and paddocks were created out of fields and scrubland in a rural area known as Dolla, which is five miles from Nenagh and nine miles from the Lough Derg Yacht Club at Drumaneer.

Approached via a winding tree-lined avenue, the two-storey non-basement house overlooks its own small lake.

"The owner carried out a serious investigation into Georgian houses, taking notes and photographs when he visited a particularly good one," says Callum Bain.

However, building a country house from scratch cleared the way for modern technology, so high-tech features were built into the fabric.

Surroundsound, advanced surveillance and double glazing are all part of the build, while all the bedrooms have en suite bathrooms.

Even the newly-built stableyard has camera security for its six loose boxes and tack rooms.

A new driveway curves under mature trees, over a bridge and sweeps around a lake to the forecourt, from where a flight of granite steps leads to the main entrance. Exterior walls are rendered, as they should be.

Rooms are beautifully proportioned, with 18ft ceilings, and are oriented to catch the sun when in use, like a typical Georgian house.

A heavy mahogany staircase climbs from the oak-floored hallway.

Off the hall is a drawingroom with original period fireplace and stained oak floor.

Across the way, the oak-floored formal diningroom links with an L-shaped kitchen/breakfastroom that is large enough to sit a crowd down to lunch.

The builder has left the kitchen unfinished, waiting for a buyer's personal taste, although there are plans in place and plumbing and wiring are in situ.

A sun lounge opens from the kitchen and onwards to a Liscannor terrace.

The mahogany staircase curves to a gallery landing, lit from above by a deep ceiling shaft. All five bedrooms have smart en suite bathrooms and four have dressingrooms.

Just one bedroom has been "dressed" for viewing.

Outside, Virginia creeper and flowering climbers are already marching up the exterior walls and netting is in place to host new growth.

The new stableyard has everything required for a substantial country house.

A lake situated at the front of the house looks as if it has been there forever.

Lawns, flower beds, shrubberies and paddocks extend to mature trees fringing the long gravelled drive.

Viewing is by appointment with Callum Bain or Harriet Grant of Ganly Walters.