Survey Data
Reg No
16403501
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1755 - 1765
Coordinates
325073, 185285
Date Recorded
13/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over part basement country house, built 1760. The ground floor and first floor appear to be split-level. The house is finished in render. The Venetian doorcase has panelled double doors with sidelights and a semi-circular spider's web fanlight. Window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames. The hipped roof is set behind a parapet with a corbelled coping and is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks have plain caps and clay pots. The country house is set within a small well wooded demesne.
Appraisal
This mid eighteenth-century country house is in very good original condition. It compliments its surroundings and adds much to the local heritage. The country house was once occupied by Major John Humphreys (1778-1872), land agent to William Howard (1788-1869), fourth Earl of Wicklow, and was a childhood home of Cecil Frances "Fanny" Alexander (née Humphreys) (1818-95) whose hymns and poetry included "Once in Royal David's City" (1848).