Stewart’s Lodge (or Steuart’s or Steward Lodge), Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow
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. 265. “(Steuart/LG1863; Duckett-Steuart, sub Eustace-Duckett/IFR) A house of late-Georgian appearance, of two storeys with a large deep curved bow in the centre of one of its fronts rising a third storey. One bay on either side of the bow.”
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic, c. 1750, with pedimented central bay and granite dressings including quoins and lugged architraves to openings. Renovated, c. 1835, with ashlar projecting porch added having Tuscan portico and full-height bow added to rear. Renovated internally, c. 1880. Group of detached outbuildings to site. Freestanding gazebo and gateway to site.
Record of Protected Structures:
Steward Lodge, Fair Green, Leighlinbridge. Townland: Leighlinbridge
A small, three-bay, two-storey country house with a basement, dating from circa 1750. The façade has a steep-pitched, floating pediment containing an oculus. The walls are rough-cast with granite dressings including raised coigns, a base-mould, string-course on the first-floor level, a cornice and windows with lugged architraves and triple keystones. The windows on the front façade have six-pane sashes while those on the rere have been altered in the early 19th century to mullions. A tetrastyle, Doric porch in granite ashlar was added about 1835 as well as a full-height bow at the rere. The roof is hipped with natural slates and a pair of chimney-stacks. There is a gazebo in the grounds and the grounds are entered through an arch.
Interest: regional, architectural, interior
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