A rich opportunity to buy Georgian gem

AN original of the species, and the original of its setting, is Richmond House, a Georgian villa near Glanmire, Co Cork whose original wooded grounds have been swallowed up by one-off housing in the past number of decades.

Likely to date back to the 1840s, it is essentially a sort of early prototype of the bungalow, but with more grace and features – its columned, curving front porch and canary yellow entrance door is a case in point.

Richmond House features on the local Rathcooney Amenity Walk leaflets as a point of interest, and the vendors say an early owner was Frank Peard, one of the first Protestants to become involved with the GAA in the latter half of the 1800s.