Castletown Cox

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

Detached seven-bay three-storey over raised basement Classical-style country house, built 1767-71, on a symmetrical Palladian plan with three-bay full-height breakfront, three-bay three-storey side elevations, seven-bay three-storey over raised basement Garden (south-west) Front having three-bay full-height breakfront, five-bay two-storey lateral wings having single-bay full-height advanced end bays (five-bay double-height Garden (south-west) Front elevations), and single-bay two-storey higher pavilions on square plans leading to five-bay two-storey perpendicular outbuilding wings returning as three-bay double-height ranges. Hipped slate roofs (on a quadrangular plan to central block behind parapet) with rolled lead ridges, sandstone ashlar chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-sandstone eaves (concealed to central block). Octagonal slate domes to pavilions with rolled lead ridges, and open timber vents to apexes on octagonal plans (with elliptical-headed openings having balustraded parapet, moulded surrounds having keystones, frieze supporting dentilated cornice, and octagonal ogee-domed capping having ball finial supporting iron weathervane). Sandstone ashlar walls to Entrance (north-east) Front with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, tripartite frontispiece to breakfront (comprising half-fluted double-height

Type:
Country house

Period:
1765–1775

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.38°N, 7.37°W

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