CO TIPPERARY: €795,000:BEECHMOUNT is a large, Georgian house with a real sense of its time and place, and income from a quartet of courtyard apartments and a couple of paddocks. All this – and 10 green acres in the valley between the Slieve Bloom and Devil's Bit mountains, just 1km from the Tipperary town of Roscrea.
New to the market through Knight Frank, the asking price is €795,000.
Handsome to look at and long and lovingly lived in, Beechmount’s older, rear rooms date from the mid-1700s while the front rooms, in all their decorative glory, were built c1810 by the Fawcett family. The same owners landscaped the grounds and planted the distinctive avenue of beech trees which, right now, are in spring bud. So too are the daffodils and bluebells which yearly fill the front lawns and woods.
The main house is two storied and has a floor area of 380sq m (4,090sq ft), laid out in five reception rooms (including a sunroom with a door to a Victorian walled garden), four bedrooms and kitchen/breakfastroom. A shower room and two bedrooms in a rear wing need work. The apartments, three of them with two bedrooms and one a single bedroom unit, are in a double courtyard to the side of the house and produce €24,000 in annual rent.
Beechmount, with its timber sash windows, hipped slate roof and limestone steps to a panelled front door with Ionic pilasters, is immediately impressive. The entrance hallway’s decorative plasterwork is nicely highlighted in contrasting wine and cream paintwork and given context by the original, flagstone flooring. Similar original features are in cared-for evidence throughout, in timber and flagstone flooring as well as coving, cornicing, picture rails, open fireplaces and sash windows.
There is a touch of drama about the dining room, with its dark timber floor, opulent Chinoiserie wallpaper and open fireplace. The paler colours of the drawing room are washed by light from two sash windows.
The kitchen/breakfast room is another bright room and, though thoroughly contemporary, with beech and cherrywood fittings, it has a sense of the house’s period about it.
There is a studio/office on the first floor return and the bedrooms are a good size. The walled garden is a delight, growing eternal favourites such as raspberries, strawberries, beetroot and even artichoke.
The courtyard has a lovely, carriage-arch entrance and, as well as the apartments, an office, guestroom and storage sheds. Vacant possession of the apartments can be arranged.
Beechmount, Roscrea, Co Tipperary
Large, country house with lands, courtyard apartments and paddocks.
Agent:Knight Frank
