Knightstown, Portarlington 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. 178. “(Carden, Bt, of Templemore/PB) A two storey early to mid-C18 house. Five bay front, with pedimented breakfront; predimented doorcase with Venetian window over. High roof on bracket cornice Three bay side elevation.” 

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Detached five-bay two-storey Georgian house with dormer attic, built c.1760, with pedimented central breakfront and stair return to rear. Extended to rear comprising single-storey return. Double-pitched and hipped artificial slate roof with gabled dormer attic windows and nap rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots. Timber dentil eaves to front; projecting ashlar eaves course to rear. Nap rendered walls with ruled and lined detail, ashlar plinth and rendered quoins. Rubble stone to rear elevation and brick laid in English Garden Wall bond to return. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and six-over-six timber sash windows. Venetian-style window opening to centre first floor. Limestone pedimented doorcase with timber panelled door. Interior not inspected. Set back from road in own grounds; part overgrown grounds to site. Group of detached rubble stone barrel-vaulted outbuildings to site with corrugated-iron roofs. Single-arch stone road bridge over stream to drive with ashlar voussoirs.