Meath country houses

1700 – Platten Hall, Co. Meath

Construction started circa 1700 for Alderman John Graham. According to Maurice Craig, possibly designed by Sir William Robinson.

1710 – Randalstown House, Co. Meath

Randalstown House was begun about 1710 and extended twice in the later part of the eighteenth century. A three storey over basement house,

1712 – Stackallan House, Co. Meath

Stackallan House is one of the very few surviving classical Irish country houses from the early eighteenth century. The principal façades to the west and south have nine and seven bays,

1731 – Summerhill, Co. Meath

Architect: Edward Lovett Pearce / Richard Cassels

Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.

1745 – Drewstown, Co. Meath

Architect:

Attributed to Francis Bindon by the Knight of Glin in the 1960s, Drewstown is a slightly gauche, oddly proportioned country house almost certainly designed by an amateur.

1750 – Bellinter House, Assey, Co. Meath

Architect: Richard Cassels

Bellinter House was home to the Preston family for nearly two centuries and is one of the finest examples of country architecture in Co.

1750c – Allenstown House, Co. Meath

A large five-bay, four-story house built in or around 1750 by William Waller. The final owner was Vice-Admiral Arthur William Craig who assumed the surname Craig-Waller when he inherited the property in 1920 from a distant relative.In the late 1930s the property was sold to the Irish Land Commission,

1755 – Beauparc, Navan, Co. Meath

Architect: Nathaniel Clements

Described in Slater’s Directory, 1894 as “the mansion is situated on the summit of a high bank,

1765 – Unbuilt Design for Headfort House, Co. Meath

Architect: William Chambers

Chambers was paid forty guineas for this unexecuted design for a new house with 13-bay garden front,

1771 – Interior Decorative Schemes for Headfort House, Co. Meath

Architect: Robert Adam

Designs for internal decorative schemes for Headfort House – the house designed by George Semple in 1769.