Spacious family house with a high-spec on an acre near Athboy

Co Meath: €650,000: Tengwe on Frayne Road, Athboy, Co Meath was custom-built for the owner by her builder father.

As a result, little was spared in the exterior and interior finish, with touches of luxury that buyers will appreciate.

Sherry FitzGerald Royal is quoting over €650,000 by private treaty for this 279sq m (3,000sq ft) four-bedroom house, which stands on about an acre of gardens.

Tengwe, a name with a family association for the owners, is 1.5kms outside the village of Athboy on the Ballivor road. Exterior walls are of blue stone excavated on the land and coloured bricks used for the floor-to-ceiling fireplace came from a former house on the site.

The open-plan interior layout gains maximum light from tall Scandinavian pine windows. Floors throughout are polished timber or tile and paint colours are mostly butter cream and gold, with one red diningroom wall. In the sittingroom, bay windows open either side of the fireplace, which has a thick railway sleeper mantel.

An accordion window in the diningroom opens right back to view the terrace and garden. There is also a study/playroom with pine flooring.

In the kitchen, bleached oak units are topped with granite, a dresser unit has a built-in wine rack and more storage is tucked under the island unit. The de Deitrich gas hob and electric oven, steel extractor and Siemens dishwasher are part of the sale. Next door is a utility room.

A downstairs shower room has an attractive Victorian-style toilet and basin. Off the upstairs landing, all four bedrooms are doubles and the family bathroom is large enough to take a free-standing bath. Bedroom one is particularly glamourous, with its fitted walk-in dressingroom, Italian-tiled en suite shower and French doors to a decked balcony.

Outside, smooth lawns give way to a specially planned wild garden with apple, plum and walnut trees and fruit bushes. There are two terraces, one with a hollow centre for an outside fire and a restored 18th century pig shed of blue stone and brick.