Survey Data
Reg No
11901802
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Kilmeage National School
Original Use
School
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
277382, 223020
Date Recorded
17/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey national school with dormer attic, built 1891, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, 1989, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof with roll moulded ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered dwarf chimney stacks to apexes having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, rooflights, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves having paired timber consoles. Part repointed rubble stone walls with rough cut rubble stone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch central door opening with repointed yellow brick voussoirs framing diagonal timber boarded door having overlight. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and repointed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and repointed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Lancet flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and repointed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Set back from line of road with rendered cylindrical piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow conical capping supporting spear head-detailed iron gate.
Appraisal
A national school representing an important component of the late nineteenth-century built heritage of Kilmeage with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding an earlier 'School-room and residence for a School-master erected on [a] plot of land at Ballentine [sic] conveyed by Indenture dated March 7, 1829, and carried on therein until the year 1891' (The Sessional Papers of the House of Lords 1895, 4), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on restrained doorcase; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a "picturesque" Gothic theme; and the coupled timber work embellishing a high pitched roof.