Picture perfect
Co Clare
Friday November 27 2009
Set on an elevated 1.47acre site, Ballylaghnan Farmhouse, near Killaloe in Co Clare, has views towards Lough Derg, which is about a mile away.
Complete with stone outbuildings, the picture postcard property is located on a sloping site in a wooded grove set back from the road and well back from the lake.
To the front of the 190sqm (2,045sq ft) property are a gravelled courtyard and an extensive paved terrace of Liscannor stone, ideal for entertaining.
Inside, the period character of the farmhouse has been maintained, with the ground floor of the original farmhouse now giving a linked family room and kitchen.
The family room has an open fireplace, fitted bookcase, polished timber floor, open tread timber staircase to mezzanine floor, double timber doors to back hall and front door to court- yard.
The kitchen features a Stanley cooking range, exposed ceiling beams, clay tiled floor and a range of free standing timber floor units with integrated sink.
The mezzanine floor provides a study above the kitchen, while an extension to the rear links seamlessly with the old house and provides four bedrooms, a bathroom and shower room.
Lying to the east of the farmhouse and accessed from the gravelled courtyard, a range of stone outbuildings provide useful extra storage and they include an apple store, a hen house and a workshop, which also serves as a laundry at present.
This workshop could alternatively be used as a home office or studio.
It has a set of double French doors opening out to the garden off the south elevation.
The sloping gardens are mainly in lawn, overlooking the surrounding countryside, while a small fruit garden had apple, plum, raspberry and cherry trees.
A timber summerhouse is glazed on three sides to capture the east, south and western light and has a great view of the Hills of Clare.
Enquiries to Savills on 01 6634350
Irish Independent
