Reg No
10300410
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Lisnevagh House
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
288849, 179372
Date Recorded
30/03/1999
Date Updated
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Detached six-bay two-storey granite ashlar-faced Tudor Revival country house, built 1847-9, on irregular plan with porte cochère, polygonal bay windows and finial-topped gables. Designed (1846-9) by Daniel Robertson (d. 1849) for Captain William McClintock Bunbury (1800-66) and reduced in size (1951-3) by Pamela Drew (1910-89) and Aubyn Peart Robinson (1902-85) with the work overseen by Alan Hope (1909-65). Stables and walled garden to rear. See the September 2019 Building of the Month by Turtle Bunbury for more information: https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/building-of-the-month/lisnavagh-house-lisnevagh-td-county-carlow/