Co Tipperary/€950,000: Less than €1 million - over €950,000 - is the asking price with Sherry FitzGerald Talbot for a beautiful Georgian house on 5.5 acres near Nenagh in Co Tipperary. Someone in the market for a country house with room for a pony could be seriously smitten.
Allatrim House is 0.5kms on the Dublin side of Toomevara, a village which straddles the N7 Limerick-to-Dublin road, about seven miles from Nenagh. At the end of a tree-lined avenue and romantically ivy-covered, the house has four good bedrooms, a separate two-bed apartment, three bath/shower rooms and all the space and elegance of its period.
Allatrim was restored in recent years with sensitivity to its original architecture. Twelve-pane sash windows are in working order, roof and plumbing up-to-date and the new limed oak kitchen has all the accoutrements for modern living.
Through the front door with its glass side panels is a slate-floored hallway. Rich glowing paint colours add warmth and cosiness to this substantial home. A chintzy gold and pink sittingroom has tall windows on two sides. The diningroom is forest green and a large conservatory has terracotta walls to match the tiled floor.
The big country-style kitchen is in pale oak with granite worktops and an island unit. Appliances are integrated.
All the bedrooms are doubles, with a full en suite bathroom off the largest room. Some rooms have pretty low-set windows and ceiling beams, others benefit from tall multi-paned windows looking out on the garden. There is also a family bathroom and downstairs shower. The apartment is on two levels, with a kitchen and bedroom on the ground floor and bedroom and shower upstairs. The grounds are full of possibilities. There is a flagged terrace, coach-house, lofted store, flower gardens, paddock and orchard. Lawns surrounding the house are bordered by a grove of mature deciduous trees.