Survey Data
Reg No
41303168
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Town View
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
267619, 333397
Date Recorded
03/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with later second floor and later flat-roofed porch to front, and with single and two-bay three-storey returns to rear. Pitched slate roof with hooped terracotta ridge tiles, roughcast rendered chimneystacks with polygonal pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with block-and-start rendered quoins, dentillated string course to level of original eaves. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed replacement uPVC door opening to porch. Set within own grounds, with two-storey outbuilding to rear having pitched corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls.
Appraisal
Formerly a three-bay two-storey house, Tirkeenan House was modified in the twentieth century, thus undergoing a strong change to its original appearance. The render detailing to the older building give an indication of the quality of the earlier facade.