Interior designer’s inviting Shankill home brimming with personality for €2.45m

When interior designer Corinna Knaggs and her husband, Trevor Dolan, bought Abingdon back in 2012, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with this fine old Georgian farmhouse.

“This house loves people,” says Knaggs, and once you step through the imposing sandstone-detailed porch and into the entrance hall with its oak parquet floors, ceiling cornices and central rose and wainscoting, you’ll feel a definite reluctance to leave.Our apartment block’s garden is a mess. What can we do?Abingdon was built around 1758, on a site that originally stretched for 700 to 800 acres all around, says Dolan. Today, the site is a more modest 1.

Previously, the extension had bunker-style windows but Knaggs wanted to open out the area to the lovely gardens and bring in the light from dawn to dusk. The diningroom section is dramatic, with high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glazing and double patio doors opening out to the private rear courtyard. Dinner parties here will never be dull.

To the rear of the house, separate but easily accessible, is a bright, spacious TV/cinema/games room with timber floors and timber-clad vaulted ceiling with three Velux windows. There are three sets of patio doors with plantation shutters opening out to the rear courtyard, lots of built-in shelving and a media unit. Movie night is about to get a lot more interesting.

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