Valley views from pretty Georgian

A 200-year-old south-facing house in its own grounds has come down in price to €695,000

A LARGE PRICE cut on a small country house could attract downsizers to the corner of the Boyne Valley that is Kentstown, Co Meath.

Here, Kentstown House, a compact Georgian home on just over two acres has been reduced from €825,000 to €695,000. Savills is selling the property as an executor’s sale.

The Georgian house is less than a mile from the village in a picturesque setting between the Somerville estate and the grounds of the local Church of Ireland church. Navan is seven miles away, and Dublin city centre is 24 miles.

The house dates from 1800 and, while it is not particularly large at 251sq m (2,702sq ft), it has plenty of space for a family.

There are six bedrooms and two reception rooms, one of them a fine drawingroom, the other a smaller sittingroom with access to a galley kitchen that can also be accessed off the hallway.

To the rear of the ground floor, in the older part of the house, is a large utility room, a store room and a back stairs rising to two bedrooms, one leading to another in the upper return.

The main part of the house has four further bedrooms, three doubles and a single. The main bedroom has an en suite bathroom.

The house sits at the centre of its land, with lawns to the front and side, an old kitchen garden and the remainder of the land in two paddocks. The entire property is sheltered by mature trees.