Be their guest in a Roundwood country house

ON THREE acres, Roundhill Haven in Clarabeg North, Roundwood, Co Wicklow is small enough not to qualify as a country pile but large enough to be ranked a substantial country house.

Knight Frank is asking €875,000 for the property which is beside Wicklow national park and comes with valley views.

The main house is modest enough with three bedrooms, a sitting room, a wrap-around conservatory and two bathrooms.

What gives it country house status though is the additional guest wing which, as well as a great drawing room and a dining room, has a further four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a sitting room and a kitchen.

There are also two separate cottages – a two-bed called Hill Top, and a one-bed called Blue Heaven

The current owners moved in eight years ago and renovated the house and cottages and the look is bright and homely with splashes of vivid pink, blue and green.

The great drawing room is a manorial-looking room with a double-height beamed ceiling and a stone spiral staircase to a mezzanine.

Big and bright, it has seven glass windows and doors to a terrace.

There are two acres of paddock and an outdoor courtyard containing seven stables and an indoor stable barn. As well as a fairy garden – with fairies hanging from trees – there are rockeries and shrubberies, patios, decks, a sunken amphitheatre, a barbecue area, lawn and orchard.