castles in irelandWoodbrook House, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
Address
Woodbrook House, Killanne,
Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
Tel
+353 53 925 5114
Contact
Giles & Alexandra FitzHerbert
Email
fitzherbert@eircom.net
Webpage
http://www.woodbrookhouse.ie/
Price
POA
Sleeps
8
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
3
| Address | Woodbrook House, Killanne, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford |
| Tel | +353 53 925 5114 |
| Contact | Giles & Alexandra FitzHerbert |
| fitzherbert@eircom.net | |
| Webpage | http://www.woodbrookhouse.ie/ |
| Price | POA |
| Sleeps | 8 |
| Bedrooms | 3 |
| Bathrooms | 3 |
Further details:
First built in the 1770s Woodbrook was substantially reconstructed by the Blacker family after being damaged in the rebellion of 1798. It is a spacious and welcoming house with an unusually big drawing room and a spectacular spiral “flying” staircase, the only one of its kind in Ireland.
A pre-1914 visitor from England writingin 1920 remembered Woodbrook as: “…a large, square house---very comfortable, very solid, very unpretentious—it has an undulating park covered with fine old trees and beside it rise up the mountains as if in protection. There are beautiful woods there, full of huge beech trees and in some places near the river groves of silver birch. There are masses of rhododendrons everywhere and a little later the ground is covered with bluebells.
A little river runs through the woods gurgling over the stones; you can hear its music sounding all down the valley.” Giles and Alexandra FitzHerbert and their four children have lived at Woodbrook since 1998, restoring, decorating and improving it, adding bathrooms and central heating where needed. He used to be an ambassador in South America and she is an Anglo-Italian-Irish-Chilean.
They are both, therefore, well accustomed to entertaining guests from different parts of the world.
Further details:
First built in the 1770s Woodbrook was substantially reconstructed by the Blacker family after being damaged in the rebellion of 1798. It is a spacious and welcoming house with an unusually big drawing room and a spectacular spiral “flying” staircase, the only one of its kind in Ireland.
A pre-1914 visitor from England writingin 1920 remembered Woodbrook as: “…a large, square house---very comfortable, very solid, very unpretentious—it has an undulating park covered with fine old trees and beside it rise up the mountains as if in protection. There are beautiful woods there, full of huge beech trees and in some places near the river groves of silver birch. There are masses of rhododendrons everywhere and a little later the ground is covered with bluebells.
A little river runs through the woods gurgling over the stones; you can hear its music sounding all down the valley.” Giles and Alexandra FitzHerbert and their four children have lived at Woodbrook since 1998, restoring, decorating and improving it, adding bathrooms and central heating where needed. He used to be an ambassador in South America and she is an Anglo-Italian-Irish-Chilean.
They are both, therefore, well accustomed to entertaining guests from different parts of the world.