- Address
- Herbert Road, Bray
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 16301283
Mount Herbert
Herbert Road, Bray
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Mount Herbert
Mount Herbert is one of 318 buildings in Bray the National Inventory rates Regional. Mount Herbert dates from 1865–1870. 13 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This well preserved mid Victorian Italianate villa is one of Bray’s few surviving ‘gentry’ houses, many of the others having been cleared away with the expansion of the town, with others adapted for institutional use.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 16301283 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 16301283↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
Bray · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
Near Bray: more houses on the record
8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. Start with Powerscourt House in Enniskerry, 5 km away. At the edge of the list, 15 km away: Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham.
Questions about Mount Herbert
Is Mount Herbert on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 16301283).
Can you visit Mount Herbert?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Mount Herbert built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1865–1870.
Is Mount Herbert protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).