Property for sale in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary

Offers in Excess of €875,000 Slevyre is a superb pavilion style lakeside property, nestling quietly and privately in the centre of its land on the southern shore of Slevyre Bay, Lough Derg. Being away from the main Shannon flow Slevyre Bay is particularly tranquil. The house is approached through an ash wood via a winding avenue, which emerges into delightful but easily maintained gardens (featured in The Gardens of Ireland) with views of the lake. This beautiful single storey residence was architect designed and built by the current owner in 1963 within the orchard of Slevyre House. The accommodation is classically proportioned and it is evident that much thought and effort was taken in the design, creating a timeless home with bright and spacious rooms. Throughout the house are large sash windows, with superb garden views, together with period features including a magnificent Georgian fireplace, high ceilings, with ornate cornicing and friezes, and panelled wood doors with architrave surrounds and entablatures overhead. Many of these period pieces were salvaged from Irish Country Houses. The residence, which is extremely easily managed and comprises of a welcoming entrance hall, two large reception rooms, a cosy study, kitchen with AGA, associated services rooms and four spacious bedrooms with two bathrooms. The dining room and study both have French windows which open on to sheltered Liscannor stone flagged terraces and the tranquil garden which surrounds the house. Slevyre is as much about the exquisite house as it is about its gardens, grounds and land. Stepping out of each door brings you quickly to different aspects of the property, where you can stroll through the bluebell wood, with the lake in the distance, enter the walled kitchen and flower cutting garden, walk in open fields, woods, or through the Shannon Grove along the lake. The some 900 of lake frontage runs beside either open pasture or the Shannon Grove where you can wander along paths laid out at the end of the 19th century where signs of formal planting can still seen. There is a boat creek and jetty, hidden in the deep rushes, an old quarry with ice-house, a rustic summer house and the remains of the family dogs’ graveyard.