Survey Data
Reg No
22404002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
205359, 162596
Date Recorded
17/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with projecting porch to front and windbreak to rear. Pitched slate roof with stone eaves brackets, and exposed brick and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, with render quoins, plinth and plat-band. Square-headed window with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front and replacement uPVC to rear, having stone sills. Flat-roof porch with moulded eaves dentils and cornice, fixed and tripartite windows and having timber panelled door. Single-storey with loft rubble limestone outbuilding to west, forming courtyard with house. Rendered boundary wall with rendered piers and wrought iron vehicular and pedestrian gates and rubble limestone garden wall to east with dressed stone piers and wrought-iron gate.
Appraisal
This vernacular house makes a significant contribution to the surrounding landscape. The house is an interesting example of the vernacular tradition in Ireland, and retains many traditional features and materials. The related outbuildings to the site enhance the setting of the house.