Turlough Park

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey double-pile country house with dormer attic, built 1863-7; dated 1865, on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to ground floor; four-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Vacant, 1923-36. Sold, 1991. Restored, 1999-2001, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with rolled lead ridges, tuck pointed snecked limestone chamfered chimney stacks having lichen-covered cut-limestone capping, trefoil-detail decorative timber bargeboards to gablets on consoles with cast-iron "Fleur-de-Lys" finials to apexes, and embedded rainwater goods in dragged cut-limestone chamfered "cornice" on dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron ogee hoppers and square profile downpipes with trefoil-detailed straps. Dragged limestone ashlar-banded tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on dragged cut-limestone chamfered plinth with bull nose-detailed drag edged dragged hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-Portland Stone steps with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround having bull nose-detailed reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Cusped flanking window openings on dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill course with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Cusped window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill, and polished pink marble Corinthian colonette mullions supporting drag edged dragged cut-limestone voussoirs having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill course, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill course, dragged cut-limestone Corinthian colonette mullions, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having engaged colonette-detailed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to rear (north) elevation with dragged cut-limestone chamfered sill courses, dragged cut-limestone Corinthian colonette mullions, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals (ground floor) or engaged colonette-detailed reveals (first floor) framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior restored, 1999-2001, including (ground floor): double-height hall on a square plan with polished Portland Stone flagged floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cantilevered staircase on a dog leg plan with wrought iron-detailed cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volutes, stained glass window to half-landing, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door, and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice; library (south-west) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals on panelled risers, foliate-detailed timber bookcases centred on cut-veined black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on foliate-detailed cornice; drawing room (north-west) 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, and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber framing on nail head-detailed carved timber cornice; 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, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; study (south-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers; 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.