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Upstairs at the front are two double bedrooms the family bathroom is beside a single room at the back. Inside, the original parquet floor extends from the wide hall into the dual-aspect drawing room, which has a gracious Adam-style fireplace and a south-facing bay with French doors to the garden. A huge chimney at one end signals its original use as the gas works for the estate, and it’s still possible to ring the roof-mounted farm bell.įrom the front, the house has an attractive rendered exterior, with twin chimneys above the centre bay and a single-storey porch with tall side lights and a flat-headed fanlight that matches the eight-over-eight timber sash windows. With 265sq m (2,852sq ft), the three-bay, two-storey house, which is Ber-exempt, is on a square plan with a bay and a single-storey side wing, and there is 205sq m (2,207sq ft) of additional living space in the “garden room”, which a previous owner converted from outbuildings. The current owners measure its value in their respect for the generations who lived there before they have an emotional connection, says Sally, with “every inch steeped in history” and surrounded by nature, to a practical family home with lots of living, entertaining and outdoor space. The outermost property, now known as Quails Wood House, is appraised in the inventory as “an interesting and valuable collection of buildings” dating from the late 19th century.
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It was in the Fitzwilliam family until the 1970s, when Lady Juliet Tadgell, whose father, Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, was the eighth earl, and whose son-in-law is the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, sold it.Īt the eastern extent of the farm complex in that photograph, the former estate manager and workers’ houses are named in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as Coolattin Lodge. This mansion, now within a golf course, was designed in the 1790s for the fourth earl Fitzwilliam by the architect John Carr, of Yorkshire, and completed in the early 1800s. On a tourist-information board in the west Wicklow village of Shillelagh is an old photograph of the “Home Farm complex” that was developed from the 1840s to serve Coolattin House, the seat of the earls of Fitzwilliam, whose landholding encompassed about a fifth of the county.