Auction Brochure for Ards House and Estate

Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details

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Level of description: Item
Date: c.1926
Reference: 1
Extent and medium: 7 pp; Printed; photographic print
Scope and content: Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details on various facets of the property and notes that the owner (Lady Ena Stewart-Bam) ‘has been in negotiation with the Irish Land Commission, who are quite prepared to give every facility to an intending purchaser’. The agent is noted as Messrs Battersby & Co., 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. The brochure also notes: • The sale of the historic ‘Doe Castle’ ruin with about 30 acres of demesne land. • The potential sale of ‘furniture which includes some old and rare pieces and a valuable library’. • That the ‘Ards Estate has been in the possession of the Stewart family for about 150 years. The first Stewart of Ards and the First Marquess of Londonderry were only brothers. The present head, Lady Stewart-Bam of Ards, is selling the property as her husband’s chief interests are in South Africa’. • That the price for the freehold is £50,000 including sporting and fishing rights.
Related units of description: A 'Catalogue of the valuable library of books to be sold by auction, commencing on Thursday, 9th May, 1929 ... at Ards House, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal / the residence of Lady Stewart-Bam' is extant in the National Library of Ireland. https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000435713
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal > The Sale of Ards House and Estate

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2,000 acres. Stone built Georgian-style Residence. 6 Reception Rooms. Billiard Room. 19 Principal Bedrooms. 4 Bathrooms. Nursery Suite. Splendid Servant's quarters. Ample Garages a…
At the Southern extremity of the beautiful bay of Sheephaven, noted for its rock scenery, and as the home of myriads of sea birds. To the South and West stretch the mountains of Do…
Good Mountain Shooting over about 4,500 acres is available outside the Demesne.

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CADLITT 1205 3-200 North-West Ireland. ARDS HOUSE AND DEMESNE CO. DONEGAL. Dunfanaghy Road Station—adjoining Demesne and 2 miles from the House. Dunfanaghy Market Town 7 miles. Letterkenny 18 miles. Londonderry 38 miles. Routes:—Fleetwood to Belfast ) by rail via Strabane to Letterkenny. or Liverpool to Belfast ) Thence by car. Holyhead to Kingstown ) The journey can be done comfortably via Holyhead and Kingstown leaving Euston 8.45 p.m. daily—arriving Ards 1.30 p.m. the following day. Cashelmore Post and Telegraph Office in Demesne—2 miles from the House. 2,000 acres. Stone built Georgian-style Residence. 6 Reception Rooms. Billiard Room. 19 Principal Bedrooms. 4 Bathrooms. Nursery Suite. Splendid Servant's quarters. Ample Garages and Stabling. 20 Cottages. Beautiful Pleasure Grounds: Home Farm. First rate Cover and Mountain Shooting. Salmon and Trout Fishing in Rivers and Lake.

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NORTH-WEST IRELAND. At the Southern extremity of the beautiful bay of Sheephaven, noted for its rock scenery, and as the home of myriads of sea birds. To the South and West stretch the mountains of Donegal, whilst Muckish Mountain forms part of the Mountain shooting. ARDS HOUSE & DEMESNE TO BE SOLD.—One of the finest residential and sporting estates in Ireland, entirely enclosed on its landward side by a well-built stone wall, 2 miles in extent, abutting on the County road from Letterkenny to Dunfanaghy. THE RESIDENCE is substantially built of stone in the Georgian-style on dry gravelly soil and faces seawards with glorious views. It is approached by a drive 2 miles long, from the County road. 2

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ACCOMMODATION : ON THE GROUND FLOOR.—Pillared Porch, Entrance Hall, Inner Hall and Grand Staircase, Dining Room, Drawing Room, Billiard Room, Boudoir, Library, Study, Smoke Room, Gunroom, Side Hall Entrance, Cloakroom, Lavatory, and two W.C.'s, Butler's Pantry and Store Room. On the Lower Ground Floor are the spacious offices including Servants' Hall. 5 Bedrooms and Bathrooms. ON THE FIRST FLOOR—Reached by the main staircase are 10 Bedrooms and Bathroom and by a second Staircase, 6 Bedrooms, Bathroom, Housemaid's Pantry, Lavatory and W.C. Above are Day and Night Nurseries, Sitting Room, 3 Bedrooms, Bathroom, Housemaid's Pantry, Lavatory, and W.C. Two Attic Bedrooms. Independent Hot Water Service to all Floors. Excellent Water supply from a Lake in the Domesne. Certified Drainage System by Messrs. Kaye, Parrie & Ross, of Dublin. Many alterations and improvements have been made, and the house is in excellent repair. Stabling and Garage Premises STABLING for 12 horses. Three spacious Garages or Coach houses with man's accommodation. Harness room. 20 Workmen's Cottages all in good order. 3

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