Hercules Langford Rowley PC was an Irish politician and landowner.
The Rowley residence, Summerhill House, built 1731.
Summerhill House was a 100-roomed Palladian house in County Meath, Ireland which was the ancestral seat of the Viscounts Langford and the Barons Langford. Built in 1731, it was likely designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and completed by Richard Cassels in the Palladian style, although Sir John Vanbrugh, who was related to Pearce and with whom he trained, is thought to have also influenced the design of the house, which could be seen by the great arched chimney stacks and the palatial grandeur and scale.
Summerhill House
Equestrian portrait of Elisabeth at Possenhofen Castle, 1853
Summerhill House, Garden Front c1903 (rear of the property).
One of the surviving ornamental side gates to Summerhill House with oculi and blind niches was taken down and re-erected in recent years at Dolly's Grove. The gates stood to the side of the wings as entrances to the rear gardens extending the already vast width of the house. The busts are not original and were added in modern times.