Don’t spare the rods as Victorian angling lodge comes on stream

CALLING all anglers - cast your eyes and rods towards Lough Arrow in Co Sligo, where a unique period lakeside residence is up for sale. Lecarrow Lodge is a pure confection, a veritable gingerbread house on 30 acres.

It is a place where new owners won't spare the rods, and children will be spoiled by the grounds there's an ancient lime tree called the Faraway Tree (after an Enid Blyton story) on which generations of children have clambered.

"I spent my childhood stealing over the wall of Lecarrow, it is an early magical place, absolutely at its best at this time of the year, with the azaleas in bloom and the Mayfly out," says Sandra McCrann, a fisherwoman trapped in an auctioneer's role an 8lb 5oz trout taken last week came just too late to feature in her brochure eulogy.