Knocktopher Abbey

Country house in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1865–1870

Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile country house with dormer attic, built 1866, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay three-stage tower on a square plan; three-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation centred on single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1981. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof including gablets to window openings to dormer attic, clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-limestone coping to gables on cut-limestone "Cavetto" kneelers with margined limestone ashlar buttressed chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on dragged cut-limestone chamfered stepped plinth with margined limestone ashlar diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having moss-covered "slated" coping. Pointed-arch central door opening between cusped lancet window openings with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals framing diagonal timber boarded double doors. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement ("cheeks"), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on foliate label stops framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Lancet window op

Type:
Country house

Period:
1865–1870

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.48°N, 7.22°W

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