Castle Leslie

Country house in Monaghan, Ireland, dating from 1875–1880

Extensive country house, dated 1878, designed by Charles Lanyon and W.H. Lynn. Comprises approximately square central block of mainly two storeys with dormer floor and basement, with single-bay two-storey gabled entrance projection diagonally set to north corner with two-bay loggia to western half. Part of building to east of entrance is three storeys over basement. Garden front of house is three bays, south-east elevation is five bays and other elevations are of multiple bays. Wings to north-west of north-west elevation and to north-east of north-east elevations are three-bay single-storey at inner halves and higher gabled, dormered outer halves, latter providing somewhat symmetrical appearance. North-west wing returns to run south-west and has eleven-bay loggia of round arches to south-east side, with higher gabled single-storey projecting end bay with canted doorway. Canted south-west end to wing. Link between house and south-west wing has five-bay arcaded elevation with square-plan piers having chamfered plinths and moulded capitals, with moulded archivolts, raised keystones and with heraldic devices in spandrels. Garden front of house has two-storey canted end bays. Formal garden to angle between latter elevation and south-west garden front of house proper. Steeply pitched slate roofs throughout, with red clay ridge tiles, profiled cast-iron rainwater gutters and round and

Type:
Country house

Period:
1875–1880

Where:
Monaghan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.32°N, 6.89°W

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