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Newbridge Estate
Newbridge House is an 18th-century Georgian country house on a large demesne in north County Dublin, built for Archbishop Charles Cobbe and retaining much original furniture. The estate includes the main house, a small working farm with a cobbled service courtyard, and a medieval tower house (Lanestown) within its parkland; it now forms part of a regional public park and offers tours.
Its prime
1752
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1752
What Newbridge Estate looked like in its prime.
Symmetrical five-bay Georgian mansion of warm-brown ashlar with white dressed-stone quoins and window surrounds, two main storeys over a raised basement with small basement windows. Central triangular pediment above the entrance, reached by broad stone steps with white wrought-iron railings and recumbent stone lion sculptures at the base. Tall multi-pane sash windows puncture the façade; a low parapet roofline is punctured by several tall chimneys and ornamented urns. The house sits within partially wooded parkland with an adjoining cobbled service courtyard.
Its story
The story of Newbridge Estate.
Newbridge House was built between 1747 and 1752 for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin, to the design of the architect James Gibbs, on lands in which the Archbishop had a prior interest, having come to the financial assistance of the Weyms family some years earlier. Set in 400 acres of partially wooded parkland in north County Dublin, it is one of the finest surviving examples of Georgian architecture.
The Archbishop was succeeded by his son Thomas, who in 1751 married Lady Elizabeth Beresford, daughter of the Earl of Tyrone. The family made their final land purchase in 1811, and one later heir cleared the 'wretched mud cabins' of his tenants and built new houses, paid for by selling some of the family's most prized paintings, a Poussin and a Hobbema among them.
The Cobbes held Newbridge until 1985, when Dublin County Council acquired it under an arrangement allowing the family to continue residing there. The demesne, with its show farm, and a medieval tower house at Lanestown in the parkland, now forms one of Fingal's regional public parks, and the house retains much of its original furniture.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1752.
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Clans who held Newbridge Estate.
The families that held Newbridge Estate for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Cobbe
Built 1747–1752 for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin; the Cobbe family held Newbridge until 1985.
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