Butlerstown House is a Georgian prize

There’s a lotto like about Butlerstown House, says Tommy Barker.

BACK in the late 1990s, these property pages ran a weekly “Lotto House” slot — showing the sort of house you could aspire to if you won £1 million or so in a Jackpot coup.

Rising house prices made the column a bit redundant, suddenly £1m wasn’t enough to get you into a great house, and a good financial comfort zone too. Through the Celtic Tiger years, you really needed a major Lotto rollover (or Euromillions win) of multiples of millions to even think of making a trading-up move to something a bit classy.