Country Houses

The classic middle-class desire to move to a house in the country with fine period features and glorious gardens shows no sign of easing, despite the chancellor’s increase in stamp duty on high-end properties. Prices have been rising in the prime country-house market for 13 consecutive quarters, the longest period of sustained price growth since … Continue reading »

Three years ago the 360-acre Newhall Estate three miles outside Ennis in Co Clare was offered for €5m. Having failed to sell, it’s now going for auction in lots in June through Sotheby’s, with the house on 65 acres guiding €500,000 – currently the same price as an apartment on offer at Idrone Terrace in … Continue reading »

If you had the resources, Georgian Ireland must have been a very agreeable place in which to live. It was certainly more prosperous and peaceful than it would be after the 1848 famine. This idyllic world is captured in Patricia McCarthy’s scholarly and highly entertaining work, which stretches from the start of the building of … Continue reading »

The story of Beamond House, the opulent country seat of “super miller” John McCann, began in 1800 when a young McCann arrived in the locale four miles from Drogheda and hacked out a millrace to divert water from the River Nanny and built a grain mill. His first clever step was a careful selection of … Continue reading »

Published: 12:48 EST, 19 May 2016 | Updated: 19:50 EST, 19 May 2016 A stunning Georgian country house that has been home to Second World War soldiers, a ballet school and one of the world’s most impressive collections of pianos has gone on the market for £3million. Finchcocks, in Goudhurst, Kent, is considered to be … Continue reading »

An historic house that you can actually imagine living in, a house that was home to a former prime minister, but also had a secret role during the war, that’s Hughenden Manor. Most National Trust properties are so vast it’s impossible to imagine how anyone could ever have considered them to be homes, but Hughenden … Continue reading »

3950 Franklin Road – $7,975,000 This five-bedroom, nine-bathroom home was designed by celebrated architect Wallace Frost with intricate detail. Enter to a floating curved limestone staircase, high ceilings, beautiful fireplaces and stunning flooring. It comes complete with a cathedral beamed ceiling study, a first-floor library and two screened lakeside pavilions. See the full listing on … Continue reading »

30000 SW 35th Drive – $3,995,000 This is a gated home with a circular drive that leads up to the front doors. The residence features an executive-style office, gourmet kitchen, theater, huge wine cellar and separate living quarters. The 11,111 square-foot house contains five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, tennis courts and a fireplace. See the full … Continue reading »

At the base of the Bull Run mountains, once-proud Evergreen Manor had a surrounding working plantation of more than 1,000 acres in the 19th century. Until now, the nearly 190-year-old manor near Haymarket – which stood empty for about 50 years – had been gradually deteriorating. It was infested with termites. The roof was leaking … Continue reading »

Why is it of interest? Carstown House near Termonfeckin in Co Louth is a rare example of a 17th-century Irish manor house. It is designated a building of national importance on the County Louth Record of Protected Structures. The fact that a late 15th/early 16th-century tower house was incorporated into the building gives it the … Continue reading »