CO TIPPERARY €875,000: Slevyre is classically proportioned with sash windows, a magnificent Georgian fireplace, and high ceilings with ornate cornicing and friezes, writes EDEL MORGAN
THE SELLERS of Slevyre, Terryglass in Nenagh, Co Tipperary,built it in 1963 in the orchard of the grand house they once owned, Slevyre House (now known as Slevoir House), but which they sold to the Silesian order of nuns.
Although the Hickie family built Slevyre in the 1960s on the southern shore of Slevyre Bay, Lough Derg, it has the classical look of a period house. It comes to the market for the first time since it was built, with 40 acres of gardens, grassland and woodland, and is asking in excess of €875,000 through Knight Frank .
In a way Slevyre, a pavilion-style house with 900m of lakeshore frontage is like a miniature version of the main house, a Victorian- Italianate mansion. It is approached through an ash wood via a winding avenue, which emerges into gardens that have been featured in the Gardens of Ireland.
Inside, you would never think it was built in the mid-20th century. This single storey house was architect designed and is classically proportioned with large sash windows, a magnificent Georgian fireplace, high ceilings with ornate cornicing and friezes, and panelled wooden doors with entablatures overhead. Many of these period pieces were salvaged from Irish country houses.
The reception rooms include a dining room with polished oak floor, corniced ceiling, plaster faux-panelled walls and arched head French windows opening onto a wide flagstoned terrace. The drawing room features a fine Georgian marble fireplace, and has a door to the study. The kitchen has a tiled floor, two sash windows, built-in cupboards, a four-door AGA cooker, and a double Belfast sink. Off the kitchen is the pantry/back hall with built-in cupboards, Belfast sink and an airing cupboard. Leading on from the pantry/back hall is a passage off which there is a toilet, larder, storage room and boiler room leading to a garden room.
There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms and the formal gardens include a walled kitchen garden with an orchard.
The lake frontage runs beside either open pasture or Shannon Grove where you can wander along paths laid out at the end of the 19th century and where signs of formal planting can still seen.
There is a boat creek and jetty, hidden in the deep rushes, an old quarry with ice-house, a rustic summer house and the remains of the family dogs’ graveyard.
Slevyre, Terryglass, Nenagh, Co Tipperary
Four-bedroom lakeside pavilion-style house on 40 acres of gardens
Agent: Knight Frank
