Survey Data
Reg No
20867036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
169857, 71272
Date Recorded
17/05/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having central porch. Projecting gabled bay attached to west, with further gabled bay attached. Conservatory to east. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings. Venetian windows to gabled projecting bay.
Appraisal
A handsome house built at a time before Blackrock became a fashionable suburb. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries terraces, pairs and smaller detached houses were built in the area to accommodate the growing middle class. This house predates this densification. Its form is more in common with a small scale country house, and it forms part of a group with the villa styles houses, such as Richmond Lodge, Maryville and Marble Hill, which were built close to the river in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and are shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map, complete with their ornamental pleasure grounds.