Survey Data
Reg No
12308032
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
249749, 157934
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house with dormer attic, built 1903, originally thatched. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. One of a group of six. Hipped gabled (shared) roof (hipped gabled (shared) to half-dormer attic window) with replacement clay tile, c.1950, laid in diagonal courses, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rock-faced cut-limestone walls to ground floor with painted roughcast walls over having rock-faced cut-limestone quoins to corner. Square-headed window openings (some possibly remodelled) with cut-limestone shallow sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of road with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A pleasant small-scale house built as one of a group of six houses (including 12308015 - 8, 33/KK-19-08-15 - 8, 33) representing an important element of a planned village sponsored by Ellen Odette Desart (née Bischoffsheim), fourth Countess of Desart (1857-1933) as accommodation for workers associated with the Kilkenny Woodworkers Company together with the nearby Greenvale Woollen Mills (12308004/KK-19-08-04). Built to designs prepared by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) in a characteristic Arts-and-Crafts style the architectural design value of the composition is enlivened by distinctive attributes including the combination of materials in the construction, the profile of the roof, and so on. However, while most of the original form and massing survive in place the inappropriate replacement fittings to the openings have not had a positive impact on the external expression of the composition.