Garden No.
WA0528
Significance
Modest site - with buildings and planting surviving
Landscape Elements
Ancient Remains, Buildings/Artefacts, Landscape Park, Plant Collection
Townland
Killoteran
Present on Ordnance Survey
First Edition: yes, sheet 168
Second Edition: yes
Revised Edition: yes
A modest late-Georgian country house, facing west on a flat site, with farm buildings and walled garden, all south of the River Suir. A small park is separated from the front of the house by a ha-ha giving views north west to the Suir. Walled garden and associated buildings in good condition. It also retains areas of historic tree planting and some of its access routes.
Principal Building |
1: Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, c.1820, on a rectangular plan centred on single-storey portico. |
Ornamental Garden |
None of historic interest but well-kept shrubberies and lawn. |
Ornamental Garden Building |
None |
Plant Collection |
There are a number of mature native and exotic trees along the avenue and in the park. |
Outbuilding |
3: Yard east of house with detached two-storey multi-bay outbuilding of rubble stone with pitched slate roof in good condition. Access to yard via carriage entrance and by gothic doorway to garden. |
4: Detached outbuilding to southeast, now part of separate property that uses the historic secondary gate to the road. |
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Productive Garden |
None |
5: Large intact walled garden of rubble stone. Not in use as kitchen garden, laid out in lawn. |
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Productive Garden Building |
None |
Parkland |
6: A modest park survives intact edged with clumps of trees in classic English landscape style. |
Woodland |
There are small patches of woodland to the north and south of the property but no plantations. |
Farmland |
Historic field structure remaning and in use for farming |
Water |
None |
Avenue, Drive or Walk |
One avenue from Old Kilmeaden Road, pre 1843, running northwest and dividing to rear and front of house. Previously, this returned to the road to the southeast past the outbuildings to a separate exit that now serves a recent detached dwelling. |
Gate Lodge or Gateway |
2: Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, pre 1843, on a rectangular plan with hipped slate roof. |
Boundary or Boundary Wall |
South by Old Kilmeaden Road, north, east, and west by agricultural land and hedgerows. |
Other |
7: A ha-ha separates the lawn to the front of the house, facing northwest towards the River Suir. Now diminished in depth and rendered in cement. |
William Scully was leasing this property from Edward Roberts in 1850 when it was valued at £34.
Overview | |
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Site Footprint Visible | Yes |
Boundary Defined | Yes |
Significant Development | No |
Architectural Features | |
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Principal Building | Yes |
Garden Building | No |
Buildings of Indeterminate Purpose | No |
Gateways and Gatehouses | Yes |
Avenues, Drives and Walks | |
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Avenue | No |
Drive or Walk | No |
Garden Features | |
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Ornamental Garden | No |
Walled Garden | Yes |
Orchard | No |
Parkland | Yes |
Woodland | Yes |
Natural Water Feature | No |
Artifical Water Features | No |
Allée | No |
Vista | No |
Other | No |