Grange House, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Grange House in Grange Lower has a grand fanlight over the door and a water pump in the yard. The entrance says, ‘Will you take tea in the drawing room?’ The yard says, ‘Good. You'll be helping to make it.’

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with two-storey with dormer attic return to rear (north-west). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cut limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods, dormer windows to return. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with fanlight and glazed timber door to front south-east) elevation. Rubble stone outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof to west. Cast-iron pump to associated yard. Square-profile rendered gate piers with wrought-iron gates to front of site. Set within own grounds.

The classical fenestration and layout of this middle-sized house is greatly enhanced by the retention of historic fabric including fine timber sliding sash windows, a well executed slate roof with stone eaves and a pleasingly proportioned return. The retention of other features, including the outbuildings, pump and entrance gates add further to the significance of the ensemble.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21903615

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Burial GroundGraveyard · 226 yd