Grangeville House — Fethard

Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built 1857, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1922. Resold, 1945. Resold, 1957. Resold, 1978. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening into house with concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; reception room (south) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (north) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having limewashed "battlemented" capping.