we're an hour outside of Dublin in the
Irish countryside standing in front of
Ngoc Trinh
castle which is a Georgian country house
that's on sale right now for thirteen
and a half million euros or about
sixteen million dollars now that's a lot
of money for any country house anywhere
what makes this so valuable is the fact
that it's sitting on around a thousand
acres that belongs to it so literally
everything you can see belongs to this
estate there's 20,000 square feet of
interior space and let's take a look so
here we are in the main entrance hall
which is obviously very grand and very
ornate you can see the family crests on
virtually every wall here and up there
and you can also see this pretty lavish
ornament now obviously the hall is an
initial statement about the house but
it's also about entertaining this is the
seat of one of the largest land holders
in the entire county and also weren't
the wealthiest and so he had tons of
people over pretty much constantly the
entire ground floor is meant for
entertaining so we are in the formal
library which is much the same as it was
when the house was built you can see
these walls of leather-bound books which
were actually ordered all masked by the
owners when they built the house you can
tell that no one's ever read them
because the pages are still totally
uncut so obviously this is a relatively
cozy space but it's clearly meant to
impress there's this colossal highly
ornate mantelpiece beautiful plaster
ceiling and then of course these
floor-to-ceiling windows with heavy
drapery that look out over the houses
thousands of acres the thing about a 200
year old home especially a 200 year old
home at this scale is that things change
I'm standing in what used to be the
ballroom now it's an office and now I'm
coming into the drawing room which is
now being used for puzzles and study
the thing is that this is a true country
house it's lived in it obviously retains
this sense of extreme wealth and
grandeur but at the same time it's
really what a lot of people's ideas of a
kind of old family home looks like this
house in its own way is actually quite
revolutionary in the sense that it was
the first house in Ireland to have
running water
the first house in Ireland have
electricity and the first house in
Ireland just have central heating so as
we ascend to the second floor where all
of the bedrooms are you can also see in
this massive domed skylight that lights
the house so we are in one of seven
principal bedrooms in the house and then
there are six other bedrooms for
children and staff and so forth this
bedroom is notable because it's where
Winston Churchill spent several months
in the 20s when he was here in Ireland
during the Irish Revolution obviously
the house needs some work it's
definitely not in perfect condition but
you're not just paying for the house
you're also paying for all of this to
our left is a walled garden to our right
are these rolling fields and what you
can't see is literally hundreds of acres
of agriculture several lakes and then
forests and a Game Preserve
totaling again over 1,100 acres the
house is the centrepiece obviously but
it's not the only thing that you're
really buying