Laurel Hill House, County Derry 

Laurel Hill House, County Derry 

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. 182. (Kyle/LGI1912) A house given a new Italianate front 1843 by Henry Kyle, to the design of Charles Lanyon. Two storey, five bay; one bay pedimented breakfront centre with three narrow round-headed windows above and a single-storey Corinthian portico below. Simple pierced balustrade round roof and on portico. Rusticated and vermiculated quoins; entablatures on console brackets above ground floor windows. Hall with columns at back, disguising the join with the earlier house. Some good plasterwork in reception rooms.” 

Laurel Hill, Coleraine, County Derry, photograph courtesy of Mark Bence-Jones, A Guide to Irish Country Houses.

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