Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1731
Nature: New house. For John Browne, M.P. (later Earl of Altamont)
Refs: Richard Pococke (ed. G.T. Stokes), Tour in Ireland in 1752 (1891), 88 (E.McP files); the Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38

Name: IVORY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1773
Nature: Proposed adds., for Earl of Altamont. Unexecuted but house enlarged to similar plan, probably also by Ivory, completed 1778.
Refs: Ground plan, signed and dated 1775, at Westport House;  Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, I', Country Life 137, 29 Apr 1965, 1013; E. McParland, 'Thomas Ivory', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 17

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1781;1796
Nature: Interior of dining room, 1781. Design for greenhouse, 1796. For John Denis, 3rd Earl of Altamont (cr. Marquess of Sligo, 1800).
Refs: Signed designs for drawing room, dated 2 Feb 1781, in collection of Marquess of Sligo, Westport House; Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland - II', Country :Life 138, 6 May 1965, 1074(illus.); John Harris, 'The Wyatts at Westport', Connoisseur 62 (1966), 224; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1184;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),115,116(illus.). 

Name: HOLLAND, HENRY #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1808
Nature: Gateway at NE end of town (demolished 1958ca), for 1st Marquess of Sligo. (D. Griffin says identical to main gate at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire)
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 530, citing MS diary of the Rev. Daniel Beaufort, TCD MS K.6.63, f.75.

Name: WYATT, BENJAMIN DEAN #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1819
Nature: S wing containing library. Destroyed by fire in 1826. For 2nd Marquess of Sligo.
Refs: Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland - II', Country :Life 138, 6 May 1965, 1076; John Harris, 'The Wyatts at Westport', Connoisseur 62 (1966), 224;

Name: PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1831
Nature: Design for an ice well for 2nd Marquess of Sligo.
Refs: Drawing, s & d 1831, in RIBA Drawings Collection, see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: Office of J.B. Papworth (1977), 129.

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1858
Nature: New principal staircase of Sicilian marble. Made by Italian workmen. Balustrade by Skidmore, Coventry. Cost under £6,000. For George, 3rd Marquess of Sligo.
Refs: Mark Girouard, 'Westport House, Co. Mayo, II', Country Life 137, 5 May 1965, 1077; Denis, 10th Marquess of Sligo, Westport House and the Brownes (1981), 50

Name: KAYE-PARRY & ROSS
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: 1906
Nature: Alts & imps.for 5th Marquess of Sligo. Builder: R.E. Mellon, Rathgar.
Refs: IB 48, 24 Mar 1906, 242

Name: PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Design for proposed gates & lodges attributable to JBP on basis of similarity of screen to design in Rural Residences.  For Marquess of Sligo. (Executed with one lodge only, which was demolished and replaced by a larger lodge c. 1905.)
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawing at Westport House (information and photograph of drawing from J.A.K. Dean in letter of 7 Aug 2001)

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Decoration of hall. For Marquess of Sligo.
Refs: Drawing in IAA, Sibthorpe Collection Acc. 78/22.A1; Westport House- Historical Sketch - Description of Adam and other Decorations restored by H. Sibthorpe & Son, Ltd, pamphlet, n.d.(copy in Irish Architectural Archive, RP.D.22.9)

Name: ROMAINE-WALKER, WILLIAM HENRY #
Building: CO. MAYO, WESTPORT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Designed terraces on garden front for 5th or 6th Marquess of Sligo.
Refs: www.buildingsofireland.ie (last visited, Mar 2016).