This is what Bishop Hervey's Palace in Ballyscullion would have looked like had it been fully completed. The central rotunda was virtually completed but circa 1803/1804, it was almost completely dismantled to avoid the alleged application of the 'window tax'. The portico at the front entrance door was taken away to Belfast where it can be seen to this day adorning St George's Church in the 'High Street'. The Ballyscullion house was apparently based on the 1774 house on Belle Isle, Lake Windermere. This Belle Isle house (which still remains) was very probably based on the Pantheon in Rome. The Ballyscullion 'Palace' was, in its turn, to be the prototype for Ickworth House in Suffolk - the Hervey family seat.

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