Airmount House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with pressed or rolled iron ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.

A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of New Ross with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the prevailing late Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking the River Barrow; the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a so-called as "Morrison Doorcase" showing a simplified "peacock tail" fanlight; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the slightly oversailing roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with the McCormack family including Andrew McCormack (----) 'of Air Mount New Ross' (The Medical Times and Gazette 1869, 535); and Sheppard F. McCormack (----) '[of] Airmount New Ross' (Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1873, 212).