Cloncoskraine, Dungarvan, Co Waterford
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. 86. “(Nugent, Bt, of Cloncoskoran/PB1929; Wynter Bee/LGI1958) A two storey mid C19 house probably incorporating an earlier house. Entrance front with one bay on either side of central three sided bow, from which projects a single-storey porch. Garden front of five bays, with a pediment on console brakcets over the central first floor window and an entablature over the central window below. Parapeted roof. Lower two storey service wing at side. Drawing room with handsome Victorian gilt pelmets. The seat of the Nugents, formerly Nugent Humble; sold ca 1959 by Mrs A.R. Wynter Bee (nee Nugent).”
Cloncoskraine (House), KNOCKAHAVAUN, County Waterford
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1750, retaining original fenestration with single-bay two-storey canted lower bay to centre having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, four-bay two-storey side elevations having single-bay two-storey bowed bay to west, five-bay two-storey Garden (south) Front, and three-bay two-storey over basement wing to east. Hipped slate roofs on a quadrangular plan behind blocking course (half-conical felt roof to bowed bay; pitched slate roof to wing) with red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roofs to canted bay and to porch not visible behind blocking courses. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to corners to main block, and rendered band having moulded cornice with blocking course over (blocking course part stepped to Garden (south) Front to wing). Cut-stone walls to porch with stringcourse, and moulded cornice having blocking course over (part stepped). Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and moulded surrounds to Garden (south) Front having entablature over to centre ground floor, and pediment over to centre first floor on consoles. 1/1, 2/2 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to porch in round-headed recess with cut-limestone step, timber panelled double doors, and overlight. Round-headed window openings to porch with cut-stone sills, and fixed-pane timber windows. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site including terraces to Garden (south) Front having flights of cut-limestone steps with cut-limestone parapets.
Appraisal
A well-composed substantial house incorporating reserved Classical detailing, and distinctive structural features, including canted and bowed bays, which enhance the architectural quality of the composition. Very well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with important salient features and materials intact, both to the exterior and to the interior. Landscaped grounds to the site augment the setting of the building, and the house forms an appealing feature in the locality. The house is of additional importance for its historical associations with the Nugent (Nugent Humble) family.
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This property was held in fee by John Nugent Humble in 1851 when it was valued at £39. Lewis refers to it as the seat of Lady Nugent Humble in 1837 and notes it was “beautifully situated amid thriving plantations”. It was “belonging to the Nugents” according to Charles Smith in 1774. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to “Clonkosheron, the seat of the late Mr. Shanahan,but now in ruins” which may refer to an earlier house in the locality. In the 1940s the ITA survey noted Cloncoskraine was in the ownership of Miss Nugent, a descendent of the family. The house is still extant and occupied.
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