The aptly-named Bluebell Woods

NOT only do you get 3,800 sq ft of modern living space at this Co Offaly home, you also get 150 recently-planted birch trees and 2,000 planted bluebells for spring colour glory.

Up for sale is Bluebell Woods, asking price €695,000, with a whole lot of living space, all to a modern specification and with a hurricane proof roof.

Built in 2003, and on an acre at Rathbeg, Sharavogue, Co Offaly with distant views of the Slieve Bloom mountains, the house is jointly marketed by DNG Purcell in Birr, and Savills HOK in Dublin.

Close to both Birr and Roscrea, it has good access to Dublin, Galway and Limerick.

It has two floors of accommodation and two sets of stairs under its low-pitched roof, with Scandinavian windows, a lot of internal glazing and French doors to flood the place with light. It fits in a ground floor bedroom by a bathroom, a hall, kitchen/dining room with twin sets of French doors to a patio. It has both pantry and utility, a large living room with a fireplace, a formal sitting room and patio access via another set of French doors.

Overhead is a library, three bedrooms (two with walk-in wardrobes) and one large master bed en suite with walk-in wardrobe, gas insert fireplace and balcony.

The heavily planted acre is already maturing with lawns, wild grasses, bluebells and trees.

Blending traditional and modern features, it was designed to minimise energy consumption and provide long-term sustainability, says Ivan Tuite of Savills HOK.

Radiators by Solo are aimed at efficient heating of large spaces, while the Nu-Look roofing system was “designed to ensure the stability of the roof up to cyclone conditions, and comes with a 50-year guarantee,” he says.