Survey Data
Reg No
20860012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Almshouse
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
172375, 73925
Date Recorded
01/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former almshouse, built c.1820, with gable-fronted projecting end bay. Currently unoccupied. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks having platbands, timber bargeboards to gables and projecting eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, cast-iron diamond pane pivot windows set in timber frames. Oriel window to attic with diamond pane pivot windows and slate roof. Square-headed door opening with recent timber door, limestone threshold and concrete steps. Set back from road with rockface to rear. Wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth and square-profile piers with wrought-iron gate to road front.
Appraisal
This house is an important example of landlord-built housing from the early nineteenth century. One of a group of three, the group is an eye-catching roadside addition, which retains much of its historic character and fabric intact. The houses are linked the Colthurst-Bart family of Blarney Castle, who apparently built them as almshouses. The family was prominent in nineteenth century Cork charitable institutions, and held significant tracts of land to the north of the city.