Survey Data
Reg No
14807026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
233860, 224949
Date Recorded
18/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1780, abutting house to south. Now used as offices. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash render to walls with smooth render to quoins, plinth and eaves course. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with fluted engaged Doric columns surmounted by fluted coved archivolt with spider web fanlight. Timber panelled door with brass furniture and cast-iron bootscraper. Cast-iron railings surmounted on tooled stone plinth.
Appraisal
This modest house possesses a striking doorcase, executed in finely tooled limestone, which is immediately apparent in the otherwise unadorned façade. The doorcase is unusual as the columns do not appear to support an entablature. The spider web fanlight and cast-iron bootscraper add artistic interest to the structure, with the cast-iron railings completing this appealing addition to the streetscape of Tullamore.