You get plumbing and wiring where you need them rather than where a previous owner needed them the last time the house was renovated back in the 1960s or whenever, if ever. There are clear advantages to this: you get a massive, Georgian-looking house with none of the damp patches, worrying cracks or mysterious draughts of the original. There are not nearly enough Georgian mansions to go around, so consequently many of the lion-hunters of the Celtic Tiger era felt compelled to build their own. Here in Ireland, the post-colonial ambition to live in a Georgian country estate tends to be frustrated by the fact that so many of them were burnt out during the Civil War. They love it in Dubai, they love it in Russia and in China, and – even though it arose from an economy founded on slavery and oppression in the colonies – they love it in the colonies too. Instead of petering out soon after the last of the relevant Georges had petered out in 1830, the basic design keeps going and going – an era of 300 years and counting. Oldtown, Whitehills, Grangecon, Co Wicklow Asking price: €2.75m Agents: Jordan Town and Country (045) 433 550īritain’s greatest architectural export is the Georgian house, especially in its ‘country pile’ form.
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