Survey Data
Reg No
22805007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
239248, 106020
Date Recorded
22/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey local authority house, c.1930, retaining original aspect. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround having moulded entablature over, and glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having unpainted rendered boundary wall with wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned, modest-scale house, built as one of a pair (with 22805047/WD-15-08-47) forming part of a larger group of sixteen houses (with 22805008 – 18, 48/WD-15-08-08 – 18, 48). Well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with important salient features and materials intact. The house, together with the remainder of the group, is of particular importance as a reminder of the emphasis placed on social houses following the establishment of the Independent State. The house forms an attractive feature on uniform appearance in the streetscape leading into the centre of Kilmacthomas.