Naughton House

Naughton House is a building from 1793, featuring a main block that is two storeys tall with a full basement, along with two single-storey and basement back wings arranged in a U-shape. The exterior is harled with margins and ashlar dressings, painted, and has a piended and slated main roof with twin central chimneys and a moulded eaves course. The main front has an unusual design, featuring a three-window bow that is a two-thirds ellipse, with a Roman Doric fanlight doorpiece, a top balustrade, and an impressive balustraded perron with two flights that turn at right angles. The flanking sections each have two windows, and the drawing room contains a late classical bipartite window on the west side, which was inserted around 1840. The rear wings were altered between 1887 and 1901, including a mansard roof on the west side, a Jacobean ogee-roofed bathroom tower added in the eastern re-entrant angle, and a circular service stair tower that is corbelled to a square with a pyramid roof on the east side. Inside, there is an Adam-type ceiling in the entrance hall, a good circular stairwell with a cantilevered stair, and another ceiling of Adam type design. Other rooms are simply treated, and the drawing room was remodelled in early Victorian times.