Saunders Grove, Co Wicklow

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 255. “(Saunders/LGI1912; Tynte-Irvine/IFR) A very fine early C18 house built 1716 by Morley Saunders, MP, 2^nd Serjeant-at-Law, who bought the estate…Gate piers with exceptionally large balls at entrance to demesne. The house was burnt 1923 and replaced by a modern house built 1925; of two storeys with an attic in the high pitched roof and seven bays; incorporating the doorcase from the entrance door of the original house.”

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. 

p. 155. “A very fine large early 18C house built in 1716 for Morley Saunders. The entrance front had a pedimented breakfront and a superb granite rusticated Doric doorcase added c. 1740. The garden front was of brick and with cut stone dressing. The house was destroyed by fire in 1923 and a new house was built on the same site in 1925 incorporating the original front doorcase and area railings.”