Bloomville, County Offaly is a particularly charming late 18th century gentleman farmer’s residence, of two storeys and five bays with a somewhat anachronistic Gibbsian door at its centre. The original block is just one room deep but a three-bay extension to the rear provides additional accommodation, as do single storey wings on either side: that to the east contains a drawing room with generous bow window and conical roof.
How wonderful to know that there really is a Bloomville! Leopold would have been so happy there! “ the premises to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants’ rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary, transverse obsolete medieval and oriental weapons, dinner gong, alabaster lamp, bowl pendant, vulcanite automatic telephone receiver with adjacent 502 directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream 585ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs,..”
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Thank you , a great blog.
I am neither a gentleman or a farmer but I would like a house like that.
This is definitely my type of house in both style and size.
Is it lived in ? It’s beautiful.
What a beautifully proportioned dwelling and countryside.