Mourne Park, County Down
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. 218. (Needham, Kilmorey, E/PB) In 1806, Robert Needham, 11th Viscount Kilmorey, was left the Mourne estate by William Nedham, whom he had never met, and who may or may not have been a distant kinsman of his. Soon afterwards, he built a house among the glorious oak and beechwoods of his newly-inherited demesne – which lies on the souther slopes of the Mourne Mountains – in lace of an earlier house. It was modest in scale; two storey, three bay, with Wyatt windows and a doorway with sidelights. Some time later, probably post 1820. a third storey was added, then, post 1859, a new two storey front was built onto the house; so that the new front rooms had higher ceilings than the rooms in the older part of the house at the back. The new front, of granite ashlar, was of three bays, like the original front; but with unusal paired rectangular windows, set in shallow recesses rising through both storeys with relieving arches above them. In the centre, the entrance door was treated as though it were simply another window, flanked on either side by windows of similar shape and size.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the 3rd Earl of Kilmorey added rectangular bows to this front; and around 1904, he built a single-storey wing at the back of the house containing a large room known as the Long Room, with a vaulted ceiling on timber supports.
Between 1919-21, the 4th Earl built a wing to the left of the front, containing various rooms including a new large drawing room and a top-lit entrance hall; the entrance being moved round to this side of the house. At the same time, the principal staircase was remodelled to fit in the new entrance.”
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