Scarvagh House, County Down

Scarvagh House, 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. 255. “(Reilly/LGI1912) A two storey house with two storey wings extending forwards, to form a three sided entrance court. Bulit ca 1717 by Miles Reilly, originally intended as offices, the idea being to build a house in front of it. Altered towards mid-C19 by J.T. Reilly. The elevations are plain, except for two storey Jacobean style porch with a curvilinear gable in the centre range, flanked by two shallow oriels surmounted by segmental headed dormer-gables; while the wings end in square battlemented towers. The porch is of a golden stone, contrasting attractively with the rest of the house, which is rendered. Some of the rooms have C19 fretted plaster ceilings, and heavily carved Jacobean style chimnyepieces and overmantels of wood.” 

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