Bingfield, Crossdoney, Co Cavan
Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988, Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 41. “(Story/IFR) A three storey three bay mid-C18 house, built ca 1745 by Ven Joseph Story, Archdeacon of Kilmore. Venetian window over pedimented tripartite doorway. Two storey wing.”
Detached Palladian three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1745, having Venetian window over central pedimented tripartite door opening, two-storey wing to east, and five-bay elevation to rear. Hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar cornice, rendered stacks to side elevations, replacement rainwater goods. Replacement ruled-and-lined rendered walls to front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls having block-and-start ashlar quoins to rear and sides. Graduated openings having cut-stone surrounds with raised keystone, stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Pedimented entrance with Doric pilasters framing square-headed door and flanking side lights. Nine-panelled door having raised and fielded panels opens to wide flight of cut stone steps. Square-profile dressed stone gate piers set in roughcast rendered walls with ashlar copings, flanking replacement gates. Complex of outbuildings to north-east having slate roofs, rubble stone walls with brick and stone dressed openings.
A substantial country house of balanced proportions and restrained Palladian detailing that retains much of its original character and form. It employs several Classical features including the arrangement of the tripartite doorcase with Venetian window above to first floor and architraved surrounds to openings. Despite the plastic replacement windows the house retains its imposing presence and classic appearance. The house is associated with nearby Kilmore Cathedral having been constructed by the Ven. Joseph Story (d. 1767), Archdeacon of Kilmore, and this connection contributes to the historical and social significance of the house.
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Descended from Bishop Joseph Story of Kilmore and his wife Sophia Gore, daughter of Sir William Gore of Castle Gore, county Mayo, the Story family were settled in county Cavan from the mid 18th century. Robert Story or Storey, was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Cloone, barony of Carrigallen, county Leitrim, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Joseph Story, whose address is given as Bingfield, was the owner of 1479 acres in Leitrim in 1876. Bingfield House, north east of Crossdoney, county Cavan is an early -mid 18th century three story mansion. [34 H374016]
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