A HOUSE with five bedrooms and extensive gardens in Straffan, Co Kildare, will be auctioned at 3pm on Tuesday week, September 25th, in The Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co Kildare.

Illan House, located on Castledillon Lane, is set on 2.34 acres but there is an option to buy an additional 10 acres or 31 acres at a fixed price of €15,000 per acre.

The auction is being handled by Coonan Property, who report that the house was built in 2000 and has been carefully maintained.

A beautifully crafted curved staircase is the house’s dominant feature and three of the five bedrooms are ensuite.

There is also a main bathroom, large dining room, sitting room, kitchen, sunroom and orangery as well as a utility room.

A set of iron gates and stone piers greets visitors at the entrance who then pass through landscaped gardens to the house.

The gardens include ponds, fruit trees. garden arch, a feature Dolmen, plus putting green and a bunker.

There is also an elevated ‘Breeze House’ with seating and tables set amidst the gardens and extensive shrubbery.

Further details are available from Coonan Property (01 6286128) or from Brian O’Sullivan of Byrne & O’Sullivan Solicitors (046 973 1130).