Survey Data
Reg No
31312131
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
125771, 259398
Date Recorded
15/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838[?], on a symmetrical plan. In alternative use, 1911[?]. Disused, 1976[?]. Renovated. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves[?]. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing replacement glazed aluminium door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting iron double gates.
Appraisal
A house regarded as an important component of the domestic built heritage of Kilmaine with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. However, while the elementary form and massing survive intact, a comprehensive renovation programme involving the substitution of much of the original fabric has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house making a pleasing, if somewhat inconspicuous visual statement in a rural village streetscape.