Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MALLOW, SPA HOUSE

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, MALLOW, SPA HOUSE
Date: 1828
Nature: 'The present house was built in 1828, to the design of George Pain. His original plan was a Greek temple in the classical style but Mr Jephson[ from 1838, Sir Charles Denham Orlando Jephson-Norreys], who commissioned the work, preferred a Tudor flavour' (Habja) Cost: £1,000.
Refs: J.R. O’Flanagan, The Blackwater in Munster (1844), 138; Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002),333(illus.); David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 199-201(illus.)