Grange Farm

Detached five-bay three-storey house, built c. 1820, facing south, having two-storey canted end bays, lean-to verandah to middle bays, and gablets to second floor windows, and oriel windows to east and west gables, green-house below west gable oriel, and two-bay two-storey addition to rear at west end. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves having carved timber brackets, cast-iron ridge crestings, rendered chimneystacks, and with carved timber bargeboards to gables and to gablets. Hipped slate roofs to bay windows and oriel windows. Flat roof to extension. Smooth rendered to ground floor of front elevation and to canted bays, roughcast elsewhere. Moulded render string course between storeys to bay windows. Square-headed window openings throughout, with rendered sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, margined except for bay windows. East oriel has two-over-two pane window with diagonal boards to apron panels, and decorative corbel. West oriel has timber casement windows with overlights and timber boarded apron. Square-headed entrance door opening with moulded render surround with plinths, timber panelled door and polychrome tiled paving to front. Verandah has single-pitch glass roof supported on chamfered square-profile timber posts with limestone plinths and having decorative spandrels to form pseudo-four-centred arches. Lawns to front, with flight of moulded limestone steps from house terrace. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west with loading door having carved timber bargeboards, pitched slate roof, coursed rubble sandstone and brick walls, and square-headed openings with timber casement windows and timber battened half-doors. Segmental-arched vehicular entrance to front elevation. Square-profile rendered piers to road entrance, with heavy moulded caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates, set in curving walls terminating in similar pair of piers.

The asymmetrical façade of this substantial house is suggestive of more than one building phase in its history. The various types of windows add rhythm to the façade and divide the house into differing planes. The use of canted bays is characteristic of domestic Victorian architecture in County Cork, and may have been added in the late nineteenth century. The oriel windows add further interest and decorative emphasis to the house. The building retains its outbuilding which adds context to the site.