Survey Data
Reg No
41308053
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Castleblayney Female and Infant School
Original Use
House
Historical Use
School
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
282846, 319516
Date Recorded
01/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Formerly school. Hipped fibre cement slate roof with tall smooth rendered chimneystacks to end walls, slightly sprocketed eaves and replacement metal gutters fixed to smooth rendered cornice. Painted smooth rendered walls with rusticated quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash frames with ogee horns, probably late nineteenth-century replacements. Round-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door with vertically divided fanlight, and simple render surround. Garden to front with smooth-rendered plinth wall with sandstone coping, with wrought-iron railings, having pedestrian gate. Vehicular gate to south, having partly rendered rubble stone boundary wall to south with terracotta and slate coping terminates at street with smooth rendered stone pillar having detailed cap, and string course.
Appraisal
This neatly maintained detached house may have formerly been a school. Its design shows that classical arrangements of building façades influenced smaller houses. The sprocketed roof and gable-end chimneystacks, as well as its siting, set back from the street, lend this house prominence and elegance. Its typical Georgian-style town house blends well with the later Victorian estate structures on Church Street to give a rich expression of architectural styles that contribute to the built heritage character of Castleblayney.