Survey Data
Reg No
15007003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1880
Coordinates
204766, 241999
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1835, renovated c.1880 with single-bay single-storey extension to north and canted bay windows and central conservatory porch added to entrance front (west). Two-storey flat roofed extension to rear, c.1975, house now divided into flats. Hipped natural slates with wide bracketed eaves, hipped roof to north extension. Rendered walls with raised stone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings to first floor with cut stone sills, replacement windows and hoodmouldings over. Central window to first floor has cast-iron balcony. Margin timber sliding sash windows to canted bays to ground floor. Doorcase behind conservatory. Set back from road in extensive grounds with outbuilding to rear (east) and gateway to the northwest (15007008).
Appraisal
A well-composed, middle-size house of balanced proportions and classical symmetry, which retains most of its original form and massing. It was given a Gothic make-over in the late nineteenth-century creating a charming, if stylistically confusing, residence. It remains an attractive feature in mature grounds to the north of Athlone and forms an interesting group with the gateway to the west. This was the family home of the Broderick Family. Once home of the novelist John Broderick, who sold the house to retire to Bath.