- Address
- Herbert Road, Bray
- Type
- Country house
- NIAH reg. no.
- 16400702
Violet Hill
Herbert Road, Bray
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Violet Hill
Violet Hill is one of 318 buildings in Bray the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Violet Hill to 1860–1865. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
A medium sized country house, in mildly Tudor style, which is in substantially original condition. Although somewhat spoiled with the painting of the brickwork and the sub-division into nine apartments, this is still an important asset to the architectural heritage of the area.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 16400702 · 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 · 16400702↗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 800 m on foot, as the crow flies
Other recorded houses around Bray
Powerscourt House in Enniskerry is the nearest, at 3.5 km. The list holds 8, all within 40 km and photographed. Farthest out is Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham, 16 km away.
Questions about Violet Hill
Is Violet Hill on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 16400702).
Can you visit Violet Hill?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Violet Hill built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1860–1865.
Is Violet Hill 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).