Hilton Park

Country house in Monaghan, Ireland, dating from 1640–1880

Detached eleven-bay three-storey country house, built c.1650, altered c.1734, and extensively altered c.1872-5 with re-facing of exterior, addition of portico, and change from two-storey over basement to three-storey by excavation of ground around basement. Front elevation has five-bay breakfront fronted by three-bay double-height Ionic porte-cochere, flanked by three-bay wings. North end has further, recessed, bay having three-bay side elevation. South end elevation is five bays. Rear has single-storey, two-storey and three-storey additions, with pitched and lean-to roofs. Hipped slate roof, with dressed stone chimneystacks with clay pots. Roof concealed behind raised dressed stone parapet, having dressed stone copings, recessed oculus panels, and square-plan panelled piers, atop moulded projecting cornice. Rear elevation has pair brackets to eaves. Coursed squared sandstone walls, with dressed block-and-start quoins, channelled sandstone and vermiculated block-and-start quoins to ground floor, vermiculated plinth course having dressed chamfered sandstone coping. Coursed roughly squared rubble stone and rendered walls to rear with dressed stone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills, with triangular pediments to first floor windows of front of wings and south elevation. Window openings of north elevation first floor grouped into Venetian

Type:
Country house

Period:
1640–1880

Where:
Monaghan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.13°N, 7.25°W

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