Salisbury, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
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. 254. “(Bagwell/IFR; Cleeve/IFR; O’Brien, Bt/PB) An unusually tall late-Georgian house of three storeys over basement. Weather-slated garden front of one way on either side of a curved central bow. Owned by the Bagwell family of Marfield; leased in the present century to J.W. Cleeve, and from 1928 onwards to Sir David O’Brien, 6th and present Bt.”
Salisbury House, INISHLOUNAGHT, Marlfield, Tipperary South
Detached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1780, with three-bay breakfront, and with three-bay full-height bow to rear. Hipped-roofed addition to rear at ground floor level and supported on posts. Hipped slate roof with lead flashing, conical to bow, with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with channelled render quoins to front elevation, pebbledashed walls to rear and side elevations, slate-hung to south elevation and to south half of rear elevation. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows throughout, three-over-three pane to second floor, six-over-six pane to first and ground floors, all having limestone sills. Some semi-circular spoked windows to basement. Round-headed niches to first and second floors of central bay of breakfront. Carved tooled limestone doorcase to front entrance with blocking, comprising square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, carved cornice with fanlight above, archivolt with triple keystone, jambs with ovolo moulding, and flanked by square-headed sidelights with fixed timber frames. Cast-iron railings bounding basement area atop rubble stone plinth wall. Entrance gates comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, inner piers of cut limestone with moulded caps and plinths, other gate piers and terminating piers being of dressed limestone with rusticated caps and no plinths, having cast-iron railings on limestone plinth walls and cast-iron gates to entrances, double-leaf to vehicular. Remains of some shaped marl hunting lodge to north-west of house, with red brick-lined interior and open to west elevation.
Appraisal
This imposing late eighteenth-century house was clearly designed by a talented architect. The scale and form of the house are enhanced by the varying treatment of the fenestration on each floor and by the pedimented breakfront. The carved stone doorcase is clearly the work of skilled craftsmen ands adds artistic interest to the façade. The slate-hanging is a feature of South Tipperary. The unusual hunting lodge over looking Marlfield Lake contributes further to the setting of the house.
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Stephen Moore is recorded as resident here in 1814 and T. Sadlier in 1837. The christian name of the mother of Stephen Moore was Salisbury. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation John Bagwell held the house in fee. It was valued at £18+. Percy Gough of Salisbury, Clonmel, owned 724 acres in King’s County in the 1870s. Slater refers to “Inislonagh House” as the seat of Lt-Gen. Sir Charles J. Gough in 1894. Bence Jones writes that this house was leased to J.W. Cleeve in the early 20th century and from the late 1920s to Sir David O’Brien 6th Baronet.
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