[1][2][3] The first occupant was Lady Eleanor Butler, though it isn't certain if she and her husband moved in before his death.

A local cholera epidemic in 1832 meant that the family used the house as the site of a soup kitchen.

In 1989 the house was opened as a hotel and conference centre and is owned and managed by the Kilkenny Civic Trust.

[6] It is a classic Georgian three-bay three-storey over basement house with a pair of three full-height bowed bays to the east side of the house facing into the walled garden which backs onto the Castle Yard and stables to Kilkenny Castle.

The hotel retained many of the historic characteristics including the well-preserved rooms.