Mount Juliet

Country house in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1765–1775

Detached thirteen-bay three-storey over raised basement Classical-style country house, completed 1768-71, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay full-height entrance breakfront having single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch to ground floor, three-bay full-height shallow bowed advanced end bays, three-bay three-storey side elevations, nine-bay three-storey rear (south-west) elevation, and two-bay single-storey curved flanking ranges terminating in five-bay two-storey wings. Renovated, post-1914, with entrance reoriented to rear (south-west) elevation having single-bay three-storey projecting entrance bay added. Now in use as hotel. Hipped slate roofs (shallow half-conical to bowed end bays) with clay ridge tiles having some rolled lead ridges, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on carved cut-limestone cornice. Roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Part ivy-clad unpainted roughcast walls with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, rendered stringcourse to first floor, carved cut-limestone course to eaves, and painted rendered corner pilasters to porch on pedestals supporting moulded cornice (rising into gablet to centre). Square-headed window openings (some blind to side elevations; Venetian window openings to breakfront; round-headed openings to centre bowed bays (excluding top floor); Venetian window opening to entr

Type:
Country house

Period:
1765–1775

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.53°N, 7.19°W

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