Gardaí to investigate blaze at listed house
EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY
A PERIOD house of rare architectural and historical significance in Dublin’s Rathfarnham has been destroyed in a fire.
Gardaí are treating as suspicious the blaze at Marlay Grange, one of the few pristine examples of late Victorian gothic revival architecture in Ireland, and have put a crime-scene boundary at the entrance to the premises.
The house, with its truncated pyramidal roof, was designed by the renowned Dublin architect John McCurdy who also designed Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel.
The listed structure and its 12.4 acres of woodlands next to Marlay Park are owned by the property developer and philanthropist Niall Mellon.
By the time fire and emergency services arrived on the scene on Thursday evening, the blaze was too large to get under control and the roof subsequently fell in, destroying most of the interior.
All that remains of the imposing cut-stone, two-storey, high-roofed structure, dating from the 1870s, are the walls, a Dublin fire brigade spokeswoman said.
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