BALLYFIN HOUSE & DEMESNE, COUNTY LAOIS, IRELAND
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ROLE:
From 2003 to 2008 Chris was appointed with Martin Stancliffe and Purcell to support the master planning and traditional classical design aspects of this major project to conserve and restore this masterpiece of 19th century neoclassical Irish mansion and associated stables, farm and outbuildings. The former Patrician Fathers School was radically altered to form hotel accommodation. The 5* hotel was named Condé Nast Traveler Number 1 Hotel in the World 2016.
THE BUILDING:
Ballyfin House is a thirteen-bay two-storey neo-Classical country house, built 1821-6, with pedimented Ionic portico and recessed end bays with exuberant neo-classical interiors of exceptional quality. Designed by Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison it is arguably the finest late Georgian House in Ireland. The Demesne included lodges, former home farm, stables and 1928 extension.
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