With a price tag of €20 million, the Abbey Leix Estate in Co Laois is the most expensive property publicly listed in the Republic of Ireland right now.
The three-storey house is in the middle of a 1,120 acre site comprising of a stud farm, a vast array of trees as well as 10 lodges and cottages. "There is a deep hall, with a screen of columns separating it from the east-west-running staircase hall and corridor. The music room at the south-eastern corner of the house retains the light, decorative plasterwork for which Wyatt was so admired.View gallery "In the middle of the 19th-century the Italianate character was adopted and the great Classical library and a conservatory were added.
"A considerable programme of conservation of the major rooms followed. The works create a 21st-century family home with an appropriate balance between comfort and informality on the one hand and grandeur for entertaining and the display of art on the other.""A stud farm is positioned within the original farmstead and includes an attractive range of cut-stone outbuildings. A beautiful principal yard, complete with a clock tower, was built of local limestone in 1822.
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