A stud farm on 50 acres in Co Tipperary is on the market for the price of a detached house in one of the better Dublin suburbs.
The private treaty price tag of £585,000 (742,800) for Ballylanigan House Stud includes a large country house with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, 11 loose boxes, original Cromwellian stables and 50 acres of pasture.
Ballylanigan is owned by National Hunt trainers Jennifer and Peter Prior-Wandesforde, who are returning to England to be close to their family. The land is divided into five main paddocks, with three smaller paddocks used for turning out mares and foals.
The house is positioned towards the centre of the 50 acres and is in very good decorative condition. There are two windows either side of a curved fanlit front door, with a flowering herbaceous border edging the drive.
The property is located about 1.5 miles from the village of Mullinahone and less than six miles from Callan. Kilkenny is about 16 miles from Ballylanigan.
Interior accommodation is spacious, with simple cornicing in the main rooms and fine marble fireplaces. The cream-painted drawingroom with its marble fireplace is particularly bright. A richly-decorated diningroom also has ceiling detail and a cast-iron fireplace.
A Kilkenny marble fireplace is an attractive feature of the study and the large country-style kitchen has oak units and a traditional Stanley range. Off this is a useful utility/tack room.
Four of the five bedrooms are doubles and two include en suite shower rooms. There is also a family bathroom with a walk-in airing cupboard. Outside, lawns and borders are well tended.
In the cobbled yard, three loose boxes and an old stone barn dating from Cromwellian times are in the first stable block. There is also a henhouse, byre, workshop and storage sheds. The second block has four stables.
Another block includes a coach-house with four further stables and a log store. The rear yard has a three-span hay barn.
This house will almost certainly appeal to prospective buyers who have a keen, or even professional, interest in horses. The Tipperary, South Kilkenny and Wexford hunts are all within easy driving distance and
