Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE

Name: HALLAM, BENJAMIN [2]
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1808
Nature: Design for additions.
Refs: Plans and elevations in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 1158,1159; Irish Architectural Drawings (1965), 12 (no.46)

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1832
Nature: -
Refs: Plans and sections in 3 sheets of drawings in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Straffan drawings, Bin VI, Roll 36b (Acc. 79/17).

Name: SCRIVEN, JOHN ENRAGHT
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Proposed Turkish bath in basement for  'arranged' by JES;  architect John McCurdy.
Refs: 3 sheets of drawings in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Straffan drawings, Bin VI, Roll 36b (Acc. 79/17).

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Proposed Turkish bath in basement for Nathaniel Barton;  baths 'arranged' by John Enraght Scriven.
Refs: 3 sheets of drawings in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Straffan drawings, Bin VI, Roll 36b (Acc. 79/17).

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1860s
Nature: Proposed remodelling, for Nathaniel Barton. Not carried out.
Refs: Unsigned alternative schemes attributed to Charles Lanyon on stylistic grounds in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Straffan drawings, Bin VI, Roll 36b (Acc. 79/17), see D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 62(illus.)

Name: HOWE, JAMES #
Building: CO. KILDARE, STRAFFAN HOUSE
Date: 1863a
Nature: Designs parterre in front of house for Hugh Barton.
Refs: Gardeners' Chronicle 1863, p. 167, cited by Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of gardening in Ireland (1995), 128.