Survey Data
Reg No
11823017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
278362, 185198
Date Recorded
03/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Group of three terraced three-bay single-storey cottages, c.1820. Reroofed, c.1940. Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roofs. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1940. Iron ridge tiles. Remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Unpainted. Iron tie bars. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Timber lintels. Now boarded-up (timber and corrugated-ion). Road fronted. Grass verge to front. Overgrown grounds to rear (north).
Appraisal
This group of terraced cottages is of considerable social and historic interest, representing the small-scale dwellings of the majority of the population of Castledermot in the early nineteenth century – it is also possible that the cottages were built as part of a scheme that may have included an earlier warehouse or industrial building to left (west; 11823016/KD-40-23-16). Now disused and in an advanced state of dereliction, the cottages nevertheless retain most of their original form and remain an attractive and picturesque feature on the streetscape of Keenans Lane.