AN executive home close to Waterford city has come on the market through Purcell Properties, asking €875,000. Glencarrig, in Bishopscourt, Grantstown, is a modern five-bedroom house, built in the 1970s and extended to over 371sq m (4,000sq ft) in the mid-1990s.

Located off the Williamstown Road, around 2.5 miles from Waterford city, the house is approached by a long drive screened by evergreens. Inside, an impressive double-height entrance hall leads to a family room of 37sq m (400sq m) with full-length conservatory-style double glazed windows.

Receptions rooms include a drawingroom with a pitched Canadian pine ceiling and a cast-iron Victorian fireplace, a family room which also has a period fireplace and a separate diningroom. The good-sized kitchen/diningroom leads on to a utility room with lots of storage. The is also a playroom downstairs, along with the first of the en suite bedrooms.

Upstairs off the mezzanine landing there are four bedrooms, three of which have power shower en suites.

There’s also a main bathroom and a study with a pitched ceiling and recessed lighting.

The house has been in the same ownership since it was built and has been kept in good condition .

There’s a large ornamental duck pond to the rear with a cut-stone patio beside it.

The lawns have shrubbery belts and mature trees to the front and rear.

Glencarrig, Grantstown, Co Waterford

371sq m (4,000sq ft) five-bedroom family house two-and- a-half miles from Waterford for €875,000.

Agent: Purcell Properties