Woburn House, County Down

Woburn 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. 285. “(Dunbar, afterwards Dunbar-Buller, sub Pack-Beresford/IFR) A large and imposing two storey C19 Italianate mansion. Entrance front with curved bow at one end, projecting wing at the other and central three storey tower incorporating porte-cochere. Superimposed Ionic and Corinthian corner-pilasters on tower above rusticated Doric piers; entablatures on console brackets over ground-floor windows, segmental pediments over windows in upper storey, triangular pediments over windows in 3rd storey of tower. Balustraded roof parapet; shallow pyramidal roof on tower, on cornice with pediments at front and sides. Adjoining symmetrical seven bay garden front, prolonged by single-storey wing ending in pedimented pavilion; central balustraded single-storey bow; entablatures and segmental pediments over windows as in entrance front; dormered attic in roof behind balustraded parapet.” 

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