Survey Data
Reg No
60230015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Altona
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1894
Coordinates
320987, 226644
Date Recorded
14/10/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1894, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bay. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 2001. Pitched and hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan including gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic (south), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Shouldered camber-headed central door opening in shouldered camber-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a curvilinear doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" or reception rooms defined by polygonal bay windows; and the monolithic timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with John Harris McCrea (1862-1943), 'Shirt and Collar Manufacturer' (NA 1911).