Old Court House, County Down

Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 228. (FitzGerald, Leinster, D/PB; De Ros, B/PB) A low, rambling two-storey house of mid-C19 aspect, with many gables, some of them set on three-sided bows, the angle walls of which curved outwards under the eaves, so that some of the upstairs windows were bent in a vertical plane, like the windows at the stern of an old man-of-war ship. There were barge-boards on the gables and hood mouldings over the windows. In a magnificent setting at the entrance to Strangford harbour. Burnt ca 1920, the family now live in a simple two storey eight bay house with astragals. In the grounds, in a glade on the edge of the sea, is a delightful chapel, originally built 1629 by 16^th Earl of Kildare’s agent, Valentine Payne, and greatly enlarged and altered C19. Old Court went to a junior brach of the Leinsters, descended from Lord Henry FitzGerald (a younger son of the 1^st Duke of Leinster and a brother of the patriot, Lord Edward), who married Charlotte, Baroness de Ros in her own right.” 

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