Georgian townhouse on the market: Don’t dwell, Clonmel looks just swell...

Built in 1820s, now revamped, this beauty is on Anne Street, the best example of Georgian architecture in the town, hears <b>Trish Dromey</b>.

This three storey Georgian townhouse at 20 Anne Street, in the centre of Clonmel, has regained its former elegance, acquired a contemporary extension and, in the process, become a great deal brighter.

Built in the 1820, it’s part of a well-preserved terrace of 24 houses designed by Thomas and John Tinsley which are all listed for preservation. Features such as the round-headed doorway and cobweb fanlight, the Greek goddess shaped brass doorknocker and the wrought iron boot scrape make it immediately identifiable as Georgian. Three years ago the four-bed property came in to the hands of the great grandson of Liam Ruiseal the founder of Cork’s oldest bookshop which has sold schoolbooks to generations of the city’s children. “His son, my grandfather, bought it when he moved to Clonmel in the 1940s or ‘50s. It was my mother’s family home and I stayed there as a child,’’ says the owner.