Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English architect, for whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 547-8. Hunt published several books of designs, among them Half-a-dozen Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture in a series of designs for Gate Lodges, Gamekeepers' Cottages, and other rural residences (1825) and Exemplars of Tudor Architecture adapted to modern habitations (1830,1841). J.A.K. Dean has pointed out that Plate 2 in the former shows the design used for Drenagh Lodge (1834) on the estate of Valentine Browne, 2nd Earl of Kenmare, at Killarney, Co. Kerry, and that Plate 26 in the latter shows the design used for the Lough Dan lodge - later extended - on the Glendalough estate of Thomas Johnston Barton. The second design is reproduced in J.C. Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Gardening(?), p. 1206, where it is described (p.1205) as 'a bailiff's cottage, serving also as a porter's lodge, erected in the north of Ireland'.




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Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Date: 1834
Nature: Drenagh Lodge design shown in Hunt's Half-a-dozen Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture in a series of designs for Gate Lodges, Gamekeepers' Cottages, and other rural residences (1825), Plate 2. Datestone on porch. For 2nd Earl of Kenmare.
Refs: Information from J.A.K. Dean

Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENDALOUGH HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Design of Lough Dan Lodge in Hunt's Exemplars of Tudor Architecture adapted to modern habitations (1830,1841), Plate 26 (but later enlarged). Repr. in Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822 edn.?) as having been 'erected in the north of Ireland'. Built for Thomas Johnston Barton.
Refs: Information from J.A.K Dean.