Bedford House, Listowel, Co Kerry
Mark Bence-Jones. 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. 35. “(Raymond/LG1863)/ Bateman/LGI1912) A two storey seven bay C18 house with a cut-stone front. Camber-headed windows with triple keystones; cornice. In 1837, the residence of S.S. Raymond.”
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Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, now disused and derelict. Renovated, c. 1860, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added. Extended to north-east, c. 1930, comprising five-bay single-storey lean-to return with corrugated-iron roof. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and having chimneystacks rising from rear eaves. Limestone ashlar façade with eaves cornice. Roughcast rendered rubble stone side walls with roughcast. Rubble stone base to north gable. Remains of mid-nineteenth century timber two-over-two panes sliding sash windows with limestone moulded sills, lintels and triple-keystones. No windows to rear wall. Projecting gabled porch with limestone stringcourse, c. 1860. Retaining interior features. Rubble walled enclosure to south-east. Farmyard buildings remodelled or rebuilt.
