Kilboy House

Project:	Kilboy House
Completion Date:	2013
Client:	Kilvoy Estate
Project Value:	Confidential
Services Provided:	Civil & Structural Engineering Services
Project Size:	2,000m2

Project Description

The project involved the reconstruction of a three-storey period house as originally constructed on the site in 1780, following a fire that gutted a large part of the property in 2005.

The property comprises of an entrance gateway, built c.1775, comprising advanced central round-arched carriage opening with portico, flanked by round-arched pedestrian entrances, in turn flanked by pilasters and roughly-coursed rubble limestone boundary walls. It features snecked rubble limestone walling, with cut limestone portico with scrolls, archivolts and imposts and dressed quoins and surrounds to pedestrian openings.

The finely-built stone gateway is of apparent architectural design and executed by skilled craftsmen. It presents an impressive entrance to the rebuilt Kilboy House and is a conspicuous landmark on the Dolla to Silvermines road.

Kilboy House was featured in Country Life magazine (September 7, 2016 Issue) as “The greatest new house in Europe”. Kilboy House is noted as “An exceptional new house [that] captures the best of Irish architectural traditions, the finest modern craftsmanship available and the most up-to-date technology”.

Kilboy House was also awarded the Georgian Society’s inaugural Diaphoros Award for original, transcendent Classical design.