Updated five-bedroom property on 1.6 acres is in excellent condition
The entry for Glebe House on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes the 372sq m property as “a highly attractive late Georgian-style rectory which retains its early form and character”. Not a bit of this untrue; it’s really a smashing country house set on 1.6 acres with a courtyard and outbuildings.
In the book Rathaspick and Russagh: A History of the Parish, authors John Tormey and Peter Wallace suggest the house may have links to the dowager Lady Featherston of Ardagh House in Co Longford. There are drawings and sketches online of pew designs for the local church – connected with Glebe House – which Lady Featherston commissioned architect James Rawson Carroll to do.
These old houses always have ancillary rooms, and here they take the form of a plate room, laundry, utility, boiler room and fuel room. Upstairs are five double bedrooms, all of which are of generous size and en suite. The house has a secondary staircase, in addition to the rather grand one in the front hall, which would have been used by staff of old.Then there are the outbuildings, 1.
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