MEATH €690,000:Built nine years ago, Fletcherstown Lodge is based on the layout and style of Henry Ford's famous summer house in the Hamptons
FLETCHERSTOWN LODGE, a stylish, modern house in Wilkinstown, Navan, Co Meath, is expected to make more than €690,000 when it goes to auction on September 25th.
The five-bedroom house stands on 26 acres of gardens and paddocks within 10 minutes’ drive of Navan.
The property is rooted in a lovely rural setting, but selling agent Willie Coonan of Coonan Real Estate Alliance believes it will appeal to Dublin-based families happy to avail of the new fast-track M3 motorway between the city and Navan.
The planning concept for the nine-year-old Fletcherstown Lodge was based on the layout and style of Henry Ford’s famous summer house in the Hamptons, upstate New York.
The Co Meath version does not look out on pristine beaches but it does offer a mixture of formality and elegance that suits family living. It is a particularly spacious house, well proportioned yet practical and comfortable.
The double-height entrance hall is dominated by a winding staircase, which leads up to four of the five bedrooms.
The kitchen, designed for catering on a grand scale, has an overhead window, full-height wall units and windows, and a centre island for cooking and dining. There is also an Aga fuelled by paraffin, gas and electricity.
A small room off the kitchen has further electrical equipment and close by there is a separate laundry with fitted wall and floor units.
The kitchen opens into the diningroom and beyond that into a stunning livingroom with a full-size marble fireplace and double doors leading out on to a patio, which wraps around most of the house.
For more informal occasions, there is a separate, smaller livingroom with a marble fireplace for long winter evenings. Next to this room is a television room and study.
There is a guest bedroom with en-suite bathroom on the ground floor and four further bedrooms upstairs, including a master bedroom with adjoining bathroom and walk-in wardrobe.
Another bedroom also comes with an en suite while the two remaining bedrooms share the main bathroom.
The ground floor includes a substantial double garage, part of which doubles as a games room and an overhead office extending to almost 1,000sq ft.
Fletcherstown Lodge comes on the market in impeccable condition with many extras including underfloor heating, double-glazed windows and a central vacuum system.
The mature grounds include a modern farm building suitable for stables or for holding farm machinery.
Fletcherstown Lodge, Wilkinstown, Navan, Co Meath
Description: Modern five-bedroom house on 26 acres
Agent: Willie Coonan of Coonan Real Estate Alliance
