Survey Data

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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Description

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/