Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, HODDERSFIELD (CROSSHAVEN)

Name: HARGRAVE, ABRAHAM ADDISON [1]
Building: CO. CORK, HODDERSFIELD (CROSSHAVEN)
Date: ?
Nature: New? house of 3 storeys over basement with 5-bay front. Designed and/or executed by AH for William Henry Moore Hodder. AH may have remodelled or improved existing house, described in |Complete Irish Traveller| (1788), 152, as 'a good seat' with a nearby gazebo. O'Murchada, |History of Crosshaven| (1967) dates house to 1760. In ruins.
Refs: APSD, Part 14 (1864), H, 23; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 153