{"id":598,"date":"2019-10-23T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T08:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildingsofireland.fusio.dev\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:41:11","slug":"westport-westport-house-and-gardens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/ga\/places-to-visit\/mayo\/westport-westport-house-and-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Westport: Westport House and Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Westport House has welcomed over four million visitors since it was opened to the public in 1960.\u00a0 Designed by Richard Castle (d. 1751), the celebrated neo-Palladian architect, Westport House boasts a vaulted entrance hall regarded as Castle&#8217;s most important surviving domestic interior.\u00a0 In the staircase hall beyond are large paintings of local scenes by George Moore and James Arthur O&#8217;Connor (1792-1841).\u00a0 The dining room features delicate plasterwork designed by James Wyatt (1746-1813) of London.\u00a0 His son, Benjamin Deane Wyatt (1775-1855), was responsible for remodelling the adjoining long gallery where paintings of generations of the Brownes reward the enthusiast of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century portraiture.\u00a0 Over thirty rooms are open to the public.\u00a0 Visitors to Westport House can also enjoy leisurely walks through the estate where pathways skirt Westporthouse Lough giving tantalising glimpses of ClewBay and Croagh Patrick.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Westport House and Gardens Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westporthouse.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westport House and Gardens website<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Westport House has welcomed over four million visitors since it was opened to the public in 1960.\u00a0 Designed by Richard Castle (d. 1751), the celebrated neo-Palladian architect, Westport House boasts a vaulted entrance hall regarded as Castle&#8217;s most important surviving domestic interior.\u00a0 In the staircase hall beyond are large paintings of local scenes by George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"views\/template-place-to-visit.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-598","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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