CO WICKLOW: €2.675M:THE CLASSICAL grandeur of Wellfield in Kilmacanogue begins at the gravel driveway, continues through the columns flanking the front door and into the large reception hall with gallery landing.
The interior recalls a fine period country pile and yet the house, built in 2001, provides clean and comfortable living with its extensive wiring for coax points and CAT 5 cabling, high insulation, underfloor heating in bathrooms, central vacuum system, intercom to the electric gates, alarm system and pressurised water.
The house is adorned with reproduction period-style features, from cornices to architraves and sash windows. Polished marble and cherrywood floors run throughout the ground floor and the internal doors are in solid, panelled timber.
On the ground floor there is a separate guest area with cloakroom, bedroom and bathroom. Also on this floor are a drawingroom, familyroom, diningroom, sunroom (with wall-to-wall picture windows), office, and a diningroom with a door into the cream country kitchen made by John Daly (who also created cabinetry for the K Club). It has an oil-fired Aga with two ovens and appliances (including coffee maker) are by Miele and Gaggenau. The island unit has a cherrywood worktop inset with a round ceramic sink. The rest of the worktops are in granite. There is a utility room off this.
Upstairs there is a dual-aspect main bedroom suite with a marble-floored en suite with Jacuzzi bath. There is also a dressingroom and concealed linen room reached through ‘cupboard’ doors.
There are two other en suite double-bedrooms on this floor.
The 418sq m (4,500sq ft) house sits on 1.5 acres of landscaped grounds, which includes a tree-lined drive, Indian sandstone patio surrounded by rose beds, pergola with climbers, greenhouse and lawns to front and back.
There is plenty of parking and a car-washing area with hot and cold taps.
Wellfield, Kilmurry Grove, Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow
Grand period-style house on 1.5 acres of landscaped grounds. There is a guest bedroom on the ground floor and three doubles on the first floor.
AGENT: Douglas Newman Good
