Jamestown, Co Laois 

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. 160. “A hybrid house with Diocletian windows under Victorian gables and fancy bargeboards. Pillared porch at end.” 

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1740, with round-headed door opening to centre and returns to rear. Stable complex to site. Double-pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, nap rendered chimneystacks with red clay pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls; painted. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and six-over-six timber sash window. Ground floor windows set into recessed arches. Round-headed door opening with stone Doric doorcase and timber panelled double door with decorative fanlight. Entrance/ Stair Hall: replacement timber pilaster doorcases to internal doors; carved timber staircase; replacement fireplaces throughout; decorative plaster cornices to ceilings decorative plaster centrepieces. Set back from road in own grounds; landscaped grounds to site; tarmacadam drive and forecourt to approach. Stable complex to site comprising group of detached single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings.