"Originally Springmount came with a cottage attached to its grounds as well as an outdoor dairy,"
"The house was in good condition but a lot of its original features had been taken away or altered over the years. We set out to bring it back by replacing and changing out those features that weren't period correct with originals that we sourced elsewhere."
"And the shutter and sash windows were mostly intact, although sealed up with decades of paint. Once we stripped that back and freed them up, we were delighted to discover that they all worked perfectly. We had to replace a few weights for the sash windows but that wasn't really a problem."
"In the beginning we spent three to four months stripping out fake panelling that had been added at some point"
Liz Gleeson and her family bought the 1879-built Victorian villa in Greystones in 2007 after decades as a dentist's surgery. The house sits on Church Road terrace and likely originated with the Evans family, with two builder brothers occupying neighboring homes. The property originally included a cottage and an outdoor dairy that were later sold, leaving substantial side garden ground. The Gleesons restored lost period features using sourced originals, reinstated an elaborate marble chimney piece, repaired shutter and sash windows, and removed non-original panelling. They then constructed an adjoining brand-new house carefully mirrored to the original. The new old house is offered at €1.2m through Sherry FitzGerald.
Read at Irish Independent
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