10-Room Georgian House With 13 Acres of Grounds, With Planning to Develop 61 Keys in Stunning Part of Northern Ireland

By Dev Anand | 19 July 2021

Location: Bushmills Village, Close to the Distillery, North Coast, 10 Miles from Royal Portrush Golf Club, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Name: Open to Buyer

Guide Price: £3.5m to Buy the House and Land – Budget £6m to Develop into Hotel

No. of Keys: 61

The Opportunity: To acquire this beautiful Georgian house, with 6 stables, garaging and outbuildings, set in 13 acres of grounds. Current house is 10,800 sqf. (14,000 sqf with the stables etc) with 10 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. The location is stunning, close to the north coast or NI, with five Link Golf Courses, including the world-famous Royal Portrush Golf Club, home to the Irish & British Open Championship, the British last held there in 2019. The Giants Causeway, filming from the Game of Thrones, Dunluce and Dunseverick Castles and the National Trust’s Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge all make this part of the country a top tourist attraction without a class hotel to boast.

The 4th hole at the Royal Portrush Golf Club; Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images

The proposed hotel is close to the village of Bushmills, home to the 400 year old Bushmills Whiskey Distillery drawing many thousands of visitors each year. The location is less than an hour’s drive to Belfast City, airport and seaports.

Planning approval in principle has been granted to develop and extend to create a 61 room four-star (could be five-star) hotel to include restaurant and a wedding and conference facility. With virtually no four or five-star hotels in the area, this is a great opportunity for an existing hotel company wishing to extend it’s portfolio to the country. DMcM

Part of the Planning Application of what the new hotel might look like.

Main Picture: The House as is 

Current Owner: A private company

Flag and Management: Free to new owner

Financials: Full planning details available

Tenure: Freehold

Agent: Local agent in partnership with THPT

Guide Price: £10m to acquire and build

Guide Price per Key: £164k per key (budget)

Date Posted: July 2021

THPT Comment: A great opportunity to make one’s mark in the well-visited part of Northern Ireland, with the Bushmills Distillery on the doorstep. There has been a recent approval for a 35-key, five-star to be built close to Royal Portrush, which means this could be the bigger and better top-class hotel in the whole of the Northern Coast of Northern Ireland.

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