limestone ashlar walls and sandstone dressings and detailing, red brick chimneys
Floor count
2
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Edward Lovett Pearce
Developer
Trevor Lloyd and earlier the Medhop Family
Website
www.glosterhouse.ie
Gloster House is a Georgian-Palladian country house operating as a hotel and wedding venue near Brosna, County Offaly, Ireland. The design of the house has sometimes been attributed to the architect Edward Lovett Pearce who was a cousin of the owner, Trevor Lloyd, at the time the main house was constructed around 1720 – although no firm evidence of this survives.[1]
The house continued to be owned and occupied by the Lloyd family until 1958 when it was sold to the Salesian order to house a school and nursing home. The house changed hands again twice in the 1990s and, having deteriorated over time, was purchased by the current owners in 2001 and subsequently restored.
The English sounding name of the property and townland 'Gloster' (phonically identical to Gloucester) has its origins in an anglicized version of the name of the original townland, Glasderrymore (Irish: Glasdoire Mór – big green oak wood).[2][3]
^"Works - Co. Offaly, Gloster". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Irish Architectural Archive. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
^"Glasdoire Mór/Glasderry More". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^"Glasderry More Townland, Co. Offaly". www.townlands.ie. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
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