Architectural salvage pays dividends at Wicklow home

SCAVANGING paid dividends for the owners of a 1960s-built Wicklow home - they conducted a thoughtful plundering of architectural salvage at a time before it was either popular or profitable made the house what it is today.

Killadreenan Grange is in Newtownmountkennedy, on 15 acres of gardens, and at 40 years of age it is mellowed enough to fool many an eye that it is indeed a far older property than its title deeds would suggest.

It is built in Georgian style, with its entrance gates from Hilltown House (Major Boylan's) in Meath, a grand house now departed which also supplied the period internal doors and architraves.