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BELLEVUE HOUSE & ESTATE, COOLBAUN, NENAGH, CO TIPPERARY
Price: €4.8m
BER: Exempt
Beds: Five
What: a Georgian two-storey over-basement manor house with several courtyard outbuildings including stables and groom’s cottage on some 120 acres of parkland with tenanted grazing pastures, mature woodland, commercial forestry and a 2km lake frontage on to Lough Derg. Spanning some 915 square metres, it offers a reception hall, dining room, drawing room, sitting room, cloakroom, family room, kitchen/breakfast room, butler’s pantry, home cinema, five double bedrooms (all en suite), dressing room, sunroom, and main bathroom. The semi-basement has two offices, a gym, sauna, steam room, shower, two WCs, wine cellar, boot room, strongroom, storage room and French door to the grounds. As featured on Selling Ireland’s Dream Home, (RTÉ Player), the house retains many fine architectural details of the Georgian period including wall panelling, high ceilings with ornate plasterwork, bay windows, marble fireplaces, and extensive gardens next to the house with fruit trees, lawns, mature trees and shrubs.
