Mount Falcon — DRUMREVAGH

Detached four-bay two-storey country house with dormer attic, built 1871-80; dated 1876, on a square plan centred on two-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay abutting single-bay two-stage tower (south) on a square plan; pair of single-bay (five-bay deep) two-storey returns (west). Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1932, to accommodate alternative use. In occasional alternative use, 1942. In alternative use, 1955-99. Sold, 2003, to accommodate alternative use. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule retaining encaustic tiled floor, carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on star-perforated "Guilloche" frieze on carved timber cornice; hall retaining encaustic tiled floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, rosette-detailed cut-black marble chimneypiece, and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on star-perforated "Guilloche" frieze on carved timber cornice; top-lit double-height staircase hall (west) retaining encaustic tiled floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in finial-topped turned timber colonette newels, pointed segmental-headed arcade to landing with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted skylight in carved timber frame on star-perforated "Guilloche" frieze on carved timber cornice; study (south-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, monogram-inscribed rope twist-detailed Classical-style chimneypiece, and cornice to ceiling; drawing room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, Classical-style chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (north-east) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-veined red marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; 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 relandscaped grounds.