Irish couple land lockdown job restoring stately home Castle Ward
22 Jan, 2021 09:00 PM
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National Trust House Manager Neil Watt, left, with his partner Kris Reid in the grounds of Castle Ward. Photo / Liam McBurney, Getty Images
NZ Herald
Castle Ward is a three-story Georgian pile set in 330 hectares of Irish parkland. As far as starter-homes go Neil Watt and partner Kris Reid had hit the jackpot.
When the couple moved into their first home together it was a special moment. However, this stately new address had not come to them through a duel, game of chance or by being to the manor born – Watt had secured a job as a live-in curator and property manager for the UK heritage charity The National Trust at the beginning of last year.