The autumn months are a good time to enjoy your indoor spaces and consider how certain rooms might need a little freshening up before the really dark days dominate. With this in mind, there are a few house content auctions of note in the next 10 days that might just have what you’re looking for.
These include Adam’s annual Country House Collections auction, which can be viewed in Townley Hall, outside Drogheda in Co Louth, from October 11th-13th. The Francis Johnson-built Georgian country house – which has been hosting Adam’s for 10 years now – is a wonderful setting for the auction viewings.
“There are so few real country house sales any more, but this auction at Townley Hall feels like a country house auction. It suits large items like long diningroom tables and bookcases,” says Stuart Cole, managing director of Adam’s.
Most of the 800-plus lots of furniture and historic paintings on view come from Irish country houses, according to Cole.
“We get a lot of people from Belfast who come to the sale, so the location is perfect as it’s equidistant from Belfast an
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