Survey Data
Reg No
60230016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rock House originally Rockview
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1895 - 1905
Coordinates
320815, 226493
Date Recorded
20/10/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built 1900, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bays; two-bay full-height side elevations; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (north). For sale, 2016. Pitched slate roof on T-shaped plan including pitched (gabled) slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof to window opening to half-dormer attic, terracotta ridge tiles with abbreviated "swan neck" finials to apexes, red brick Flemish bond chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on timber boarded eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walls on rendered plinth with "timber frame" surface finish to gables. Round-headed central open internal porch with red brick surround having rounded reveals. Square-headed door opening into house with timber panelled door. Square-headed window opening in quadripartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with timber sill, and timber surround framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with red brick header bond sill courses, and red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with timber sills on consoles, and timber surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) elevations with red brick header bond sill courses (ground floor) or red brick header bond sills (half-dormer attic), and red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A house erected to a design attributed to Richard Francis Caulfield Orpen (1863-1938) of Leinster Street, Dublin (Williams 1994, 179), representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one eliciting comparisons with the Orpen-designed Emerald (extant 1896), Shankill (see 60260068), suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical or near-symmetrical footprint centred on a restrained doorcase, albeit one largely concealed behind a conservatory-like porch; the construction in a vibrant red brick; the "stepping up" of the openings on each floor; and the restrained neo-Gothic timber work embellishing a high pitched multi-gabled roofline.