Co Waterford:/€2.3m: €2.3 million is the asking price for Coolfin Rectory, an attractive eight-bedroom house on 4.5 acres of grounds at Portlaw in Co Waterford.

For sale by private treaty through joint agents HOK Country and Property Partners Shee & Hawe, the elegant two-storey house is 2kms from the village of Portlaw, close to Carrick-on-Suir and 18kms from Waterford city.

Perched on a hillside overlooking the Suir valley towards Mooncoin and the south Kilkenny hills, Coolfin has a wonderful setting framed by Kilbunny Forest. The 1820s house is at the end of a tree-lined avenue, surrounded by gardens meticulously landscaped over the last decade. Specimen trees including palm, eucalyptus and cedar of Lebanon are part of a landscape that also includes an orchard, extensive lawns and a tennis court. Original stone buildings to the back of the property have been converted into a garage with an 8ft mechanics pit, and offices overhead.

The two-storey non-basement house has been thoroughly refurbished in recent years though the décor is classic country house style. Many of the original features have been preserved, such as fireplaces and ornate plasterwork, while the floors in the main reception rooms are polished timber. There is a fine entrance hall with a fireplace, and an equally large inner hall where the staircase rises to a gallery landing on the first floor. The four reception rooms include a fine bow- end drawingroom.