Chippewa Wood, 12 Kendalstown Rise, Delgany, Co Wicklow Asking price: €1,525,000 Agent: Sherry Fitzgerald (01 287 4005) The garden at Chippewa Wood has made a grown man cry, but in a good way. “I remember when we first came to see it, I was trying not to lose myself completely,’ says Will Newton, who lives there with wife Rebecca and children Jack (14), Poppy (13) and Fred (7). “But it did bring tears to my eyes.
I thought the gardens were so phenomenal, they really sort of blew me away.” The Newtons moved over from the UK to work for Microsoft six years ago and originally rented, but particularly liked Wicklow and fell completely in love with the Delgany area. They liked the proximity to the sea and were fond of walking in the woods with their dogs, as they had come from living in a semi-rural area in England.
The kids were seven, five and one at the time. The family spent a year renting in Enniskerry and then in Rathmichael, but really wanted to buy and Will says they saw a window of opportunity between the two Covid years. The exterior of Chippewa Wood, Kendalstown Rise When the tears dried after seeing the gardens at Chippewa Wood, a large 1990s bungalow in the mature Kendalstown Rise development near Delgany village, the Newtons moved quickly.
“I think we actually completed the sale in five weeks,” Will says. “There were so few people able or willing to buy or sell a house in that particular time period. “So yeah, that’s what we did.
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