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| Prospect House, Dunmore Road, Waterford, County Waterford
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| 22831008 |
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| Reg. No. | 22831008 |
| Date | 1650 - 1690 |
| Previous Name | N/A |
| Townland | FARRANSHONEEN |
| County | County Waterford |
| Coordinates | 262771, 110889 |
| Categories of Special Interest | ARCHITECTURAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL |
| Rating | Regional |
| Original Use | house |
| In Use As | house |
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1670. Renovated and extended, c.1920, comprising five-bay two-storey flat-roofed parallel range along rear (south-west) elevation with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch added. Part refenestrated and extended, c.1995, comprising five-bay single-storey lean-to parallel range along rear (south-west) elevation. Hipped gabled slate roof to original block with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, replacement square rooflight, c.1995, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to additional range behind parapet. Lean-to artificial slate roof to later additional range with plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted rendered walls to original block with rendered rounded buttresses to corners. Unpainted rendered walls to additional range with rendered parapet having rendered coping. Unpainted cement rendered walls to later additional range. Square-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement to original portion) with stone sills (concrete sills to later additional block). Replacement 2/2 timber sash windows, c.1920, to original portion with 1/1 sidelights to tripartite openings. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995, to additional range and to later additional range. Square-headed openings to porch with replacement glazed uPVC door, c.1995, and fixed-pane uPVC windows with some having casement sections. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscape grounds to site.
(ii) Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1870, to west with three-bay single-storey recessed end bay to west. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs (missing to main portion) with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Square-headed openings with no sills, and timber lintels. Remains of timber fittings.
Appraisal
An interesting house of two primary periods of construction, the earliest of which is of archaeological importance. The steep pitch to the roof, together with the corner buttresses, confirms the early date of the original block. With the exception of the inappropriate replacement fittings to the porch, together with a late twentieth-century range of little architectural merit, the house retains much of its early form and character, together with some important salient features and materials. |
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