Belmont House, County Kerry

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Belmont House in Cloghers has replacement plastic windows, while its derelict gate lodge still has the originals. You’d hate to be the big house at that family dinner: ‘Well, some of us kept our standards.’ ‘You haven’t a tenant.’ ‘Standards, I said.’

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, dated 1826, with two-bay side elevations. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to centre. Pitched and hipped artificial slate roof with overhanging boxed eaves. Slate hanging to walls with rendered walls to basement and having rendered walls to porch. Limestone sills to replacement uPVC windows. Rebuilt projecting flat-roofed porch incorporating cast-iron columns, limestone hood moulding and datestone. Arched doorway with painted doorcase, timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Detached two-bay single-storey double-pile stone-built gate lodge, built c. 1830, to west retaining original fenestration, now derelict. Gateway, built c. 1830, to west comprising four sandstone ashlar piers with square-headed pedestrian gateway. Two houses built between gate and house, built in late twentieth century. Stable yard to south-west of house with arched carriage arch. Cast-iron railings around area of house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21302912

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