Riddlestown Park

The saved account records: Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) three-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1730, on a rectangular plan

The saved account records: five-bay full-height rear (north) elevation.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on axis with ridge having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone ogee cornice retaining cast-iron hopper and downpipe.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (basement) with cut-limestone mullions, and concealed cut- or hammered limestone surrounds framing remains of timber casement windows.

Riddlestown Park matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A country house erected for Justice Arthur Blennerhassett (1687-1758) to designs attributed to John Rothery (d. 1736) of Mount Ievers in County Clare (Bence-Jones 1978, 242) representing an important component of the early eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Limerick with the architectural value of the composition, one annotated as "Riddlestown [of] Blennerhassett Esqr." by Taylor and Skinner (1778, pl. 104), confirmed by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on scenic vistas overlooking gently rolling grounds; the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.