Reg No
20860013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Almshouse
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
172366, 73917
Date Recorded
01/03/2011
Date Updated
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Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former almshouse, built c.1820, with gable-fronted projecting central bay to east and canted bays to north and south. Currently unoccupied. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks having platbands, timber bargeboards to gables and projecting eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roofs to canted bays. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, cast-iron diamond pane pivot windows set in timber frames. Square-headed door opening to north elevation of projection with tongue-and-grooved door and stone flags. Set back from road with rockface to rear. Wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth to road front.
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.