Survey Data
Reg No
41401331
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
266983, 330335
Date Recorded
26/04/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1870, having lean-to addition to south gable. Hipped slate roof with two paired red brick chimneystacks, and terracotta eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows throughout, and stone sills. Segmental-headed doorway with replacement timber door, sidelights and over-light. Three-bay two-storey L-plan farm building to south-east, having hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered walls with some rubble stone, square-headed openings with recent metal fittings, and two segmental-headed carriage arches set in corrugated-iron roofed opened-sided lean-to porch. Single-storey L-plan outbuilding of c.1800 to south of house, northern part being former single-storey house, with pitched corrugated-iron roof and south part being lofted outbuilding with pitched slate roof, both with limewashed random rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with timber three-over-three pane sliding sash windows and casement windows. Watermill to south of house.
Appraisal
This house, possibly accommodating the miller who worked the nearby watermill, is a pleasant classically-informed rural house. Its three-bay two-storey form is so typical of rural Irish domestic architecture of the nineteenth century. The paired chimneystacks and the carefully-placed window openings, coupled with the segmental entrance, contribute a strong symmetry to the building. The decorative terracotta eaves course adds visual interest. The fine yard of outbuildings, including an earlier house, and the well-preserved watermill, form the context for the house.