A development of houses, bungalows and apartments in Slane, Co Meath will go on sale this weekend. Prices at Ledwidge Hall will start at £97,950 for a two-bed apartment.
The scheme is named after the poet Francis Ledwidge who lived in the village.
The builder is Grangebridge Development and joint agents Hooke & MacDonald and Robert B Daly are handling sales. The Ledwidge Hall scheme is on an elevated site at the edge of the town, not far from the River Boyne. Slane is a 27mile drive from Dublin and 15 minutes from Ashbourne. It is a pleasant village with an abundance of old-world charm, yet fairly convenient to the city.
Six four-bedroom houses and bungalows and eight two-bedroom apartments are for sale in the first phase. When the development is completed in spring/ summer 2000, there will be 47 houses and bungalows and 27 two-bedroom apartments in the low-density scheme.
Four-bedroom houses with a floor area of 1,700 to 2,120 sq ft are priced from £175,000 to £209,000.
Four-bedroom bungalows of 1,520 sq ft are £176,500 and the two-bedroom apartments from 750 sq ft to 850 sq ft are from £97,950.
TWELVE houses and eight apartments sold from plans during the summer went quickly, say Hooke & MacDonald. There is a wider than usual range of standard features in the Ledwidge houses and this encouraged strong pre-launch interest in the development.
There are good quality kitchens with stone worktops, natural stone front exteriors, Le Droff or Waterford Victorian fireplaces, wall and floor tiling, fitted wardrobes in all the bedrooms and a barbeque pit in the back garden.
Driveways and paths are cobblelocked and front and back gardens walled and landscaped.
Being built on a slope, many of the houses are split-level and the gradient gardens are an attractive feature. There are no long rows of houses. The site layout is designed to provide maximum privacy for each of the houses with roads curved and varied.
The apartments are being built on another part of the site and separate from the houses. Extensive planted open spaces are planned.
