Rochestown Wood House

Detached six-bay two-storey country house, built c.1880, having single-bay gable-fronted breakfronts and gable-fronted porch to front (north). Now derelict. Single-storey lean-to addition to side (east) elevation. Hipped slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, pitched slate roofs to gabled break-fronts and porch with timber bargeboards. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having remains of timber casement and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed door opening with timber surround to porch, having panelled pilasters, double-leaf glazed timber panelled doors with fanlight and glazed timber side panels. Limestone stepped approach flanked by rendered wall with square piers with limestone copings.

Despite its derelict condition, this house retains much of its original form and character. Its facade is greatly enlivened by it repeated gable-fronts and asymmetrical fenestration. Sited on a steep hill overlooking Lough Mahon, this fine country house forms part of a group of imposing houses which were built between Rochestown and Passage West in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.