Wicklow country houses

1673 – Blessington House, Blessington, Co. Wicklow

A substantial 17th century house built circa 1673 by Dr Michael Boyle, Lord Archbishop of Armagh. Boyle was the last ecclesiastical Lord Chancellor of Ireland,

1740 – Powerscourt House, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Richard Cassels

Just outside the village of Enniskerry, Powerscourt Estate dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The house was built for Richard Wingfield,

1754 – Bellevue House, Delgany, Co. Wicklow

The Ballydonagh demesne was bought in 1753 by David La Touche, a rich banker from Dublin of Huguenot extraction. He built a house between 1754 and 1756 at a cost of £30,000 and named it Bellevue.

1770 – Woodstock House, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Robert West

Built by Sir John Stratford in 1770, Woodstock House was designed by the eminent Irish stuccodore Robert West who worked on many of the country houses.

1772 – Mount Kennedy, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow

Architect: James Wyatt

A two-storey over basement mansion, to a design originally drawn up by James Wyatt in 1772,

1777 – Avondale House, Co. Wicklow

Architect: James Wyatt

Avondale House, Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland is the birthplace and home of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) one of the greatest political leaders of Irish history.

1811 – Castle Howard, Avoca, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison

Built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house. The house is designed part in Romantic Castle style and part in Abbey style.

1820 – Killruddery, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison, William Slater, William Burn

Now a lot smaller than at completion after the Earl of Meath demolished most of the entrance front in the 1950s when the building was discovered to be infested with dry-rot.

1838 – Glendalough House, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Daniel Robertson

Tudor Gothic extension including a new entrance front, landscaping, stables, and probably the cottage orné gate lodge,

1860 – Old Conna, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Lanyon & Lynn

A fine Tudor mansion by Charles Lanyon of Lanyon an Lynn, in the late 1850s,