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• Newberry Hall Demesne is quite unique. The original Demesne extending to 444 acres being completely intact. The house is absolutely original. Having being built in the 1760’s, some relatively minor alterations were carried out in the 1880’s and since that time no changes of any kind have taken place.
• Newberry Hall a Palladian House of significant merit & importance comes on the market for the first time in 100 years having being built for Lord Harberton in the 1760’s, it was sold c. 1850 and subsequently owned by William Pilkington a well known Dublin Publisher & Book Binder. It was purchased by the Robinson Family in 1911 and has remained in their ownership until this time.
• The House reputedly was designed by Nathaniel Clements who also designed a number of important houses including Colganstown House at Newcastle, Co. Dublin a house with a front elevation almost identical to Newberry. Constructed in red brick with stone facings, Newberry was built for Arthur Pomeroy who subsequently acquired the title of Lord Harberton.
• The Centre Block or Main House stands two storeys over basement with an attic storey above the cornice which has windows in the Garden Front but not in the Entrance Front. The Entrance Front is of three bays having a pedimented break front with Diocletian window above the tripartite fan
• lighted doorway.
• The Garden Front of the Centre Block or Main House is one bay on either side of a curved centred bow. The Main House is linked to a Pair of Two Storey Pavilions. The Pavilions with half-octagon bays to the front are most unusual. The roof parapet is surmounted by ornamental urns in the style of Newbridge House at Donabate.
• The builder of Newberry Hall, Lord Harberton, who also arranged the design and landsaping of the Demesne, had married into the Colley family of Carbury Castle. The view of Newberry Demesne today from the ruins of Carbury Castle is quite stunning.

• Newberry Hall stands almost at the centre of the Demesne and is approached by a long avenue curving through very fine unspoiled parkland.
• The Avenue crosses an attractive stone built bridge close to Trinity Well which has been a place of pilgrimage from early Christian times and being recorded as early as 1305. Trinity Well also has very significant importance as the source of the River Boyne.
• Also close to the avenue is a small man-made lake known as Newberry Pond with Boat House. The Pond is a recognised Heronry and a feeding place for migratory birds including Teal and Mallard.
• The Estate has for many years been preserved as a wildlife sanctuary with
• careful and sensitive management and limited shooting to maintain the wildlife balance.
• Closer to the House is the Ice House which is worthy of restoration.
• On the Garden Front the two tennis courts were constructed about 1890 and an unusual feature close to the tennis courts is a very large weeping Beech tree which is the work of a Gardener named Stapleton, who in the late 1880’s grafted a Beech tree upside down unto another Beech tree.
• From the Entrance Front there are superb views across the Parkland to historic Carbury Hill with the ruins of Carbury Castle.
• Close to the House is the Walled Garden of 3 acres. The wall is in good
• condition but the extensive glass houses and a pond have disappeared.
• Close to the Garden is the original stone built yard with a small Clock Tower and Pigeon Loft and including 8 Stables, Coach Houses and a Stewart’s Residence.
• An adjacent Farmyard accommodates Hay barns and some Livestock Housing.
• The lands are generally top quality limestone lands laid out in large divisions with the greater part in prime old pasture.

Features

• ORIGINAL AND UNCHANGED since being built c. 1860.
• Wooded areas on the boundaries enclose the Demesne and there are some areas of mature woodland through the Estate which provide shelter and amenity. Within sight of the house there are some magnificent specimen trees including a pair of ‘Jubilee Oaks’ to the front commemorating the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland.
• On the pending Co. Kildare Draft Development Plan, Newberry Hall & Demesne are listed and preserved under Reference BO8/10.