Survey Data
Reg No
11805020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Celbridge House
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1837
Coordinates
297340, 233063
Date Recorded
14/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay three-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with roughcast red brick Running bond (south) or rendered (north) chimney stacks to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-limestone step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters originally supporting archivolt, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Celbridge with the architectural value of the composition, one photographed (1942) by James P. O'Dea (1910-92) of Dublin [NLI ODEA 1/71], suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been reasonably well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in Main Street.