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Drumkeeran House

The House

A 5,000 square foot country house of square-cut, dovetailed Western Red Cedar, designed by architect Ted Murray, on a private headland of Ivey Lake.

Drumkeeran House through tall firs and autumn ferns, its windows lit.

The story

A Celtic country house in the Coast Mountains.

Droim Caorthainn

ridge of the rowan trees

Drumkeeran House was built to bring the spirit of a Celtic country house to the Pemberton Valley: hospitality, comfort and long evenings by the fire, among the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.

It was designed by the architect Ted Murray and built by local log builders and craftsmen, in square-cut, dovetailed and chinked logs of Western Red Cedar. Reclaimed Douglas fir floors run through the house, and the Great Hall and the family room rise to cathedral ceilings.

The house takes its name from Drumkeeran, a small townland farmstead in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and the ancestral home of one owner's grandparents. Its emblem is a Celtic horseshoe with a leaping salmon above it. Inside, the lodge is close to an art gallery, with work by Canadian and Scottish artists.

Room by room

Through the house.

The rooms a group lives in. The six bedrooms are on the Accommodation page.

  1. The Great Hall: leather sofas around a low table, the stone fireplace under a gilt overmantel, a chandelier and tall windows onto the forest.

    The Great Hall

    Vaulted to a cathedral ceiling, with an antler chandelier and the baronial-style stone fireplace. It is where everyone gathers.

  2. The country kitchen: cedar log walls, a gas cooktop set in a long counter, and glass-fronted cabinets around a window.

    The country kitchen

    A full kitchen with granite counters, made for cooking for a crowd and suited to professional catering.

  3. The family room: a wood stove, a TV, leather sofas and chairs, an antler mount and a chandelier, with glass doors to the deck.

    The family room

    The second vaulted room: the wood stove, the TV, and tall windows onto the forest.

  4. The Horseshoe Bar: a fir bar top beside a second kitchen, under cedar log walls hung with antique tools.

    The Horseshoe Bar

    The house's second kitchen, with a long fir bar to gather around.

  5. The library: a tall carved bookcase full of books, leather armchairs and a low table on a patterned rug.

    The library

    A quiet room for reading, or for a small meeting, with a door out to the deck.

  6. The billiard room: a pool table racked under a vaulted cedar ceiling and a chandelier, with glass doors to the deck.

    The billiard room

    A pool table under a cedar ceiling, for the evenings.

  7. The hot tub at the edge of the deck, among tall firs and autumn shrubs.

    The hot tub

    Outdoors on the deck, looking over the lake.

And also

  • The dining roomOne long table for the whole group, open to the kitchen, with a deck beside it for eating outside.

The back of the house above the lawn: cedar log walls, tall windows and Adirondack chairs on the deck.

The grounds

Five acres on the headland.

The house stands at the crown of a private five-acre headland, with the lake on three sides. The land is forested with mature fir, cedar, hemlock, pine, birch, maple and wild dogwood, and the lawn runs down to the water. You may see black bear, mule deer, eagles, hawks, ducks and woodpeckers, and you will hear the songbirds.

  • A private dockwith a canoe and kayaks

  • Views up the lakenorth toward D'Arcy, and west and south to Mount Currie

  • Ardbeg Cottagethe caretakers' home, on the grounds

Your dates

Book the house.

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