Stacumny House, Celbridge, Co Kildare 

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. 264. “(Bradstreet, Bt/PB1924; Nugent, sub Westmeath, E/PB) A plain three storey Georgian house to which a wing in the Classical style, containing a ballroom, was added ca 1910. The wing has since been demolished. Originally the seat of the Bradstreet family; bought ca 1890 by Hon R.A. Nugent; sold ca 1963 by his daughter Mrs Michael Popoff. Now the home of Mr and Mrs Vincent Poklewski-Koziell.” 

just gate house in inventory: 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11901103/stacumny-house-stacumny-co-kildare

Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1820, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced bay to left having single-bay single-storey canted bay window, gablet over entrance bay to right and single-bay single-storey polygonal bay to east. Refenestrated, c.1990. Now in private residential use. Gable-fronted and gable-ended roofs with slate (gablets to entrance bay and to west; half-octagonal roofs to canted bay window and to polygonal bay). Clay ridge tiles with finials. Blue brick corbelled chimney stack. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Blue brick to bay window with dentilated cornice and quoined faces to polygonal projecting bay. Square-headed window openings. Cut-stone continuous sill course. Blue brick block-and-start surrounds to some openings. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Original timber casement windows to west. Round-headed door opening. Cut-stone Baroque-style doorcase with scrolled pediment. Timber panelled door. Set within own landscaped grounds with iron railings to boundary. 

Appraisal 

This gate lodge is an unusual model in that the compact plan is treated with a highly ornate elevation of considerable artistry. The juxtaposition of roughcast walls with unusually blue-hued brick is a fine example of polychromy, while the ornate cut-stone doorcase is of artistic importance. Most of the original features and materials are still in situ, while the re-instatement of timber fenestration, using the original example to west as a guide, would restore an impression of the original aspect. The gate lodge is an integral component of the Stacumny House estate and is of social and historic significance, representing an element of the extent of an early nineteenth-century planned estate. The iron boundary railings are of a simple, unfussy nature that ought to be maintained in favour over an alternative wall.