Callinafercy House, Milltown, 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. 293. “(Leeson-Marshall, sub Milltown, E/PB) A Victorian Tudor house of 1861, built for Robert Leeson, grandson of 1st Earl of Milltown. Symmetrical front of three steep gables with a gabled enclosed porch; tall chimneystacks, single-storey three sided bow at end. Spacious rooms, attractive drawing room. The house was enlarged ca 1909, to the design of James Franklin Fuller. Now the home of Prof and Mrs B McK. Bary, having come to Mrs Bary from her cousin Mrs Ruth, nee Leeson-Marshall.”
Detached three-bay two-storey triple-gable-fronted Jacobean Revival style house, dated 1861, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre and single-bay side elevations having single-storey flat-roofed projecting canted bay window to south elevation. Extended to south-west, c. 1910, comprising three-bay two-storey Jacobean Revival style parallel block with dormer attic and three-bay two-storey return with dormer attic on a T-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey staggered parallel range and two-bay two-storey projecting bay with dormer attic at right angles to south west. Steeply pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, gable copings, grouped chimneystacks, ball finials to springers, profiled cast-iron gutters and square downpipes. Roughcast rendered walls with render moulded plinth. Exposed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins to part of north wing and including blocked openings. Render shield to central gable of facade. Paired or tripled timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills, render architraves and hood mouldings on lion-head bosses. Projecting gabled porch with square-headed door openings having timber four-panel doors to either side of porch. Stable complex, built c. 1865, to south-west about a courtyard comprising: Detached four-bay single-storey range retaining original fenestration. Detached two-bay single-storey stone-built outbuilding. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built range with corrugated-iron roof. Detached two-bay two-storey house with two-bay single-storey wing to south. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding with pair of square-headed integral carriage arches. Gateway to courtyard comprising pair of rubble stone piers with cast-iron gates. Gateway, built c. 1865, to north-east comprising four cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings.
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Robert Leeson was leasing Callanafersy House to Ephraim Williams at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £12 5s. Bary indicates that this house was leased by the Williams family and probably had been built by them earlier in the nineteenth century. It is still extant and occupied.
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