Waterloo House, Navigation Road, Mallow, Co Cork, P51 XK60 courtesy Savills February 2025
8 beds7 baths619 m2
€2,000,000
Savills proudly presents Waterloo House, a wonderful period home set out in two storeys over basement dating back to C. 1815. The property is in fine fettle and is situated on about 52 acres of grounds which create a strong sense of privacy and ample room for equestrian usage.
Upon arrival, you are greeted by a recessed entrance with electric gates and a beautiful Neo Gothic gate lodge with castellated turret. The lodge has an open plan living/kitchen/dining room, shower room and two overhead rooms accessed via a spiral staircase. It is in good decorative order and utterly charming. The lodge enjoys its own outside space and parking area.
Making your way up the gradually ascending driveway passing a c.500-year-old Oak tree, you are guided up the enchanting driveway which is bounded by a collection of post and rail paddocks and mature spruce pine trees. As Waterloo House comes into view, you get the sense that you are approaching a very special property. The driveway offers ample parking to the front or indeed via the rear archway to the first stable yard.
Making your way up the limestone steps and stepping over the threshold via the solid wood door with overhead fanlight, you are greeted by a welcoming and hugely impressive reception area with 11’2 ft high ceilings. Here, you will find original plasterwork and cornicing and the original pitch pine staircase which brings you to the first floor via its gradually ascending steps.
The ground floor offers a beautiful drawing room with feature open fireplace, a captivating dining room that looks onto the grounds and down the driveway, a billiards room with adjoining a bar room, a relaxing TV room, a homely kitchen/breakfast room that looks onto the walled garden, large laundry room and a guest lavatory. Whilst upstairs offers 6 bedrooms, a bathroom and two shower rooms. An easily accessed basement which gains good natural light offers a gym, wine cellar, a living room, a service room and a WC. This area can be independently accessed allowing for this level to potentially be self-contained.
Waterloo House has a choice of gardens and grounds to be explored and enjoyed. The main garden is located just off the kitchen/breakfast room and accessed via the adjoining TV room. This garden is bounded by original stone walls and mature planting, there is a calming water feature, a large, lush lawn and recently rebuilt greenhouse to be enjoyed. An enclosed deck offers an ideal outdoor dining area that overlooks the garden which is home to a variety of tree life such as fig, peach, bramley, cherry and apricot. A second walled garden is home to apple trees (eaters and cookers) estimated to be c. 100 years old.
Making your way into the first stable yard you will find a series of large stables, tack room and a self-contained one-bedroom apartment. Making your way further into the yard you will find a second block of horse stables and an enclosed arena built in the 1990’s. This large indoor arena also provides a collection of stables. A second vehicular entrance can be found at the rear of the property and benefits from an electric gate.
The property has been very well maintained and improved in its current ownership. It has benefited from works such as installation of 20 solar panels to generate hot water, attic insulation, installation of an EV charging point, re-roofing works of the main house and gate lodge and 5G broadband aswell as the construction of the additional stables and indoor arena which can be separately accessed from a rear entrance.
Waterloo House is an exceptionally rare offering to the open market, contact us today to discuss this wonderful opportunity.
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1815, facing south, having two-bay side elevations, and with porch with portico to front. Further additions and outbuildings to east and west form overall composition with house façade and comprise four-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west being blank to south and having multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to west and having pedimented end wall to south; two-storey block to north end of east elevation of house having canted end and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projection to angle and multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having pedimented south end. Hipped skirt slate roof to main block, having rendered chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots and some cast-iron rainwater goods. House has pedimented parapet to façade with render crest and urn finials, and moulded cornice to front and side elevations and to canted addition. Painted rendered walls, ruled and lined to basement. Camber-headed timber sliding sash windows throughout with painted sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and six-over-three pane to basement. Rear elevation also has round-headed nine-over-six pane and one two-over-four pane window. Canted addition and front of addition to angle, have one-over-one pane windows. Latter addition has square-headed quadripartite transomed and mullioned casement window. South end of eastern outbuilding has similar casement window with coloured-glass overlights. Single-storey outbuilding to west has round-headed niche to south and square-headed eight-pane double timber casement windows to north. Two-storey outbuilding to west has Venetian-style recess with round-headed twenty-pane false window. Entrance porch projects over basement area and has flat roof with rnedered parapet and moulded cornice, rear half of porch slightly projecting laterally from rest of porch, having render quoins and square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with round-headed fanlights, moulded imposts and archivolts. Front half of porch is distyle portico with limestone columns and rear pilasters. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf carved timber panelled door and fanlight, having painted render surround with pilasters having moulded caps, and with moulded archivolt and cornice. Porch approached by flight of diminishing tooled limestone steps with curving decorative wrought-iron railings. Decorative wrought-iron railings on rubble stone polinths to front of basement area. Square-headed timber battened doors to rear to rear elevation. Curved stone wall to edge of lawn to front of house, with urn pediments to each side of pedestrian steps to terraced lawns. Curved entrance to road over wide dry moat having limestone ashlar boundary walls terminating in square plan piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gates and having gate lodge. Two yards of outbuildings to north of house. First range has hipped slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Nine-bay two-storey west range with hipped slate roof having some cast-iron rainwater goods, square-headed fixed timber windows to first floor and one-over-one pane timber windows to ground floor, square-headed timber battened doors, and elliptical-arched vehicular entrance to south end. Twelve-bay single-storey north range has square-headed windows and timber battened halved doors, central elliptical-arched vehicular entrance. Six-bay single-storey east range converted to domestic accommodation, has rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots, and square-headed windows and recent hipped-roof porch. Yard further to north accessed via arch in north range of south yard. South range is replacement timber-clad stables with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Multiple-bay west range with pitched slate roof. Seven-bay single-storey east range with hipped slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls rendered to south end, square-headed windows and timber battened doors. Detached outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Coursed rubble stone walled orchard to north-east, having vehicular entrance to south side with freestanding cast-iron gate post.
Appraisal
This country house is elevated above other typical early nineteenth-century examples by the inclusion of many ornate features including the entrance porch projecting over the basement area, and the pediments and recesses to the overall façade composition, all of which serve to enliven the underlying regular classical form. The inclusion of the Longueville crest in the façade reinforces the connection with the nearby Longueville House, Waterloo House being believed to have been built as a dowager house for Longueville. The house, its yards and extensive outbuildings form an attractive and interesting group on a slightly elevated site in the landscape.
Detached gate lodge, built c. 1815, comprising circular-plan two-stage tower, facing north, with two-bay single-storey wing attached to rear, built c. 1815. Painted rendered castellated parapet to tower with continuous corbel table, and pitched artificial slate roof to addition. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Pointed arch window openings to tower, having limestone sills and hood-mouldings, with replacement timber windows. Pointed arched door opening moulded limestone surround and hood-moulding and replacment glazed timber door. Square-headed window openings to addition having replacement timber fittings.
Appraisal
This unusual demesne gate lodge forms a quirky introduction to the presence of the country house beyond. The building takes the form of a diminutive round medieval donjon and is enhanced by its pointed arch openings, with good quality limestone details.
Tina-Marie O’Neill writes in the Business Post January 26-7, 2025, that the house was built the same year as Napolean’s battle of Waterloo, hence its name. Longueville house was built in 1720, by the Longfield family, who were high sheriffs of County Cork.
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