Restored Georgian home, with country lifestyle included

CO MEATH: €775,000:A SOUTH-FACING Georgian country home; a gravel drive accessed via a stone pillar gate; fruit trees and a vegetable garden; and a paddock – Belper House in Co Meath comes with a lifestyle attached, one that would be a dream of many.

The restored house – with guest apartment – sits on high ground a mile from the Hill of Tara and 22 miles from Dublin and has views right across to the Wicklow Mountains.

The 255.4sq m (2,750sq ft) house, which is for sale through Colliers International, for €775,000 has ground floor accommodation that flows from one room to another, in an interior that is predominantly painted in creams.

The drawing room, with its tall sash windows and ornate marble fireplace, has a door to the sitting room in a similar style, with marble fire and sash windows. This leads into the dining room that has a vaulted ceiling and double doors opening out onto a terrace.

There are also double doors into the kitchen which has simply panelled cream units and large white floor tiles that give an overall country kitchen ambience. There is also a larder and a study. Country life – between indoors and out – is accommodated with a boot room (with Belfast sink), cloak room, toilet and utility to the back of the house.

On the upper floor are a bathroom and four bedrooms, one with a fireplace and another with an en suite. The self-contained apartment is reached either from the main house or via its own door from outside. It comprises a living room, bedroom and shower room.

As well as its formal lawns to the front and side, the house has woodland around it, as well as a vegetable garden and fruit trees, including apples, plums, damson and quince. The 5.5 acres (2.22 hectares) of land includes 2.5 acres of fenced paddock.Among the outbuildings are a garden shed, tool shed and workshop.

For those who like to bag wildlife, there’s hunting and fishing in these parts, as well as golf courses nearby (Killeen Castle and Royal Tara are both within three miles).

Belper House, Dunsany,

Hill of Tara, Co Meath

Restored house – with guest apartment – on high ground near the Hill of Tara

Agent: Colliers International