Killester, Co Dublin – demolished
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. 170. “(Newcomen, V/DEP) A single-storey early C18 house with a high dormered roof…Owned later in C18 by William Newcomen, 1st Bt. Demolished early in the present century, some of the stonework being used by Sir Edwin Lutyens in his additions to Howth Castle.”
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
“An outstanding early 18C single storey house. High pitched roof with dormer windows and a central pediment. Entrance front with recessed centre between projecting wings with Venetian windows. Seat of Sir William Newcomen in the late 18C. Demolished c. 1910. A chimneypiece and Venetian window surround from the house were used by Sir Edwin Lutyens at Howth castle. A new house was built at Killester to the desin of Frederick Hicks. This too has been demolished.“
Not in National Inventory.
William Gleadowe married into the Newcomen family of Carriglass House in County Longford and took their name. He started the Newcomen Bank in Dublin. He was knighted to become 1st Baronet Newcomen in 1781 and elected to the Irish Parliament. He voted for the Act of Union and his wife Charlotte was rewarded with a Peerage to become Viscountess Newcomen. Their son inherited her title and became Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen (1776-1825), and he also inherited the Newcomen Bank. The bank had a series of failures and closed in 1825, and Thomas shot himself and died in his office. After his death the title became extinct.
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