Sydenham House
NAME Sydenham House
AREA LOCATION Upper Kilmacud Road at the junction with Sydenham Road.
GENERAL A Victorian detached house with a large walled garden and four bedrooms.
An imposing house with bay windows on either side of the front door. It had an ornately plastered
hall, marble fireplaces and a stained-glass window on the landing. It had a pretty enclosed courtyard.
The porch was supported by two plain columns and the door had a Art Nouveau transom.
YEAR BUILT circa 1860
VALUATION Valued at 45 pounds in 1874
NUMBER
OF ROOMS Noted as having 10 rooms occupied by family in 1901
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, Registry of
Deeds, NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1857 Lease to Bentleys for a period of 99 years from the Earl of Pembroke
1862 - 1869 Mrs Thomas Phillips
1864 - 1869 Thomas Gilbart Figgis
1870 Vacant
1871 - 1893 Denis Doyle
1894 - 1898 Blayney Hamilton
1894 - 1943 Willoughby James Hamilton
1946 - 1951 Michael H Coote
1953 - 1954 Philip Morgan
1956 - 1959 George Berthon Roche
1965 - 1981 Michael (Andrew Lysaght) Rynne, Irish Ambassador to Spain, retired
1999 sold prior to auction guiding £850K on ½ acre
2013 Demolished 14th May 2013
STAFF
1901 Lizzie Fetherstone - Domestic servant
Ellen Bergen - Domestic Servant
1908 - 1940 Elizabeth O'Callaghan - Maid for 32 years
1911 Mary Bowen - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant, house demolished 2013 and new house built on the site.
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE February 2018
NAME Sydenham House
AREA LOCATION Upper Kilmacud Road at the junction with Sydenham Road.
GENERAL A Victorian detached house with a large walled garden and four bedrooms.
An imposing house with bay windows on either side of the front door. It had an ornately plastered
hall, marble fireplaces and a stained-glass window on the landing. It had a pretty enclosed courtyard.
The porch was supported by two plain columns and the door had a Art Nouveau transom.
YEAR BUILT circa 1860
VALUATION Valued at 45 pounds in 1874
NUMBER
OF ROOMS Noted as having 10 rooms occupied by family in 1901
ARCHITECT Unknown
SOURCES Thom’s directories, contemporaneous newspapers, OSI Maps, Registry of
Deeds, NAI Census & Wills.
OCCUPANTS
1857 Lease to Bentleys for a period of 99 years from the Earl of Pembroke
1862 - 1869 Mrs Thomas Phillips
1864 - 1869 Thomas Gilbart Figgis
1870 Vacant
1871 - 1893 Denis Doyle
1894 - 1898 Blayney Hamilton
1894 - 1943 Willoughby James Hamilton
1946 - 1951 Michael H Coote
1953 - 1954 Philip Morgan
1956 - 1959 George Berthon Roche
1965 - 1981 Michael (Andrew Lysaght) Rynne, Irish Ambassador to Spain, retired
1999 sold prior to auction guiding £850K on ½ acre
2013 Demolished 14th May 2013
STAFF
1901 Lizzie Fetherstone - Domestic servant
Ellen Bergen - Domestic Servant
1908 - 1940 Elizabeth O'Callaghan - Maid for 32 years
1911 Mary Bowen - Cook
CURRENT
STATUS No longer extant, house demolished 2013 and new house built on the site.
CONTRIBUTORS © June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE February 2018