Survey Data
Reg No
11805034
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Landscape
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1745 - 1750
Coordinates
297474, 233204
Date Recorded
14/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Attached five- or six-bay single-storey over raised basement house, built 1749, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch. Pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan; hipped slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble limestone walls with concealed cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window. Camber-headed door opening approached by flight of nine steps between wrought iron railings with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings including cut- or hammered limestone voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars. Set in landscaped grounds with margined tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Celbridge with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the top-entry plan form centred on a later porch; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in Main Street.