It’s ‘something of a mystery tour’ getting to this ‘fine-looking’ pale-pink Georgian house, ‘but utterly worth it’, says a Guide inspector. ‘Welcoming’ Susan Kellett and her son, DJ, are liked for their ‘combination of affable hospitality and attention to detail’. The well-kept grounds are ‘ideal for a tramp before afternoon tea’, with a woodland path revealing the lake and views of Mount Nephin. A roaring peat fire and ‘antiques, colourful rugs and curio upon curio’ fill a comfortable sitting room; a more formal one has French pastels, plush fabrics and gilt-framed oil paintings. Upstairs, each high-ceilinged room is different, a canopy bed here, an enormous Victorian bathtub there; ‘to comment on the “original” fireplace is moot – it’s all original, collected over 350 years of family occupation’. One bedroom has a ‘new’ carpet this year – a ‘heritage’ item from an aunt; another has a revamped bathroom. After preprandials in the former library, dinner in the wood-panelled dining room is cooked by Susan (‘think young Martha Stewart: just delightful’). Everything is fished, foraged and grown locally, some at Enniscoe. ‘Breakfast was wonderful; the mushrooms were especially good.’