Survey Data
Reg No
11903105
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
272777, 198778
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, with single-bay single-storey advanced porch to front and four-bay single-storey parallel range along rear elevation to west. Refenestrated, c.1980. Hipped roof with thatch (gable-ended to parallel range with slate). Rope work to ridges and to eaves. Red brick chimney stack. Roughcast walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered surrounds. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns to site. Detached two-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1820, to south with pair of segmental-headed integral carriageways to ground floor. Renovated, c.1980. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gable to north. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. No sills. Yellow brick dressings. Replacement timber fittings, c.1980. Pair of segmental-headed integral carriageways to ground floor. Yellow brick dressings. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, c.1980. Gateway, c.1900, to east comprising pair of rubble stone piers with wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
This cottage is an attractive long, low single-storey thatched cottage - a building type that was once ubiquitous in Kildare but which has now mostly vanished. The cottage, still occupied and in good condition, is of considerable social and historic significance, representing an important surviving component of the vernacular tradition in the county, as identified by the high-pitched thatched roof - it is also possibly of rubble stone or mud wall construction. The cottage retains many important original features and materials, including the thatch to the main roof while the re-instatement of timber sash fenestration to the front (east) elevation would restore a more accurate representation of the original appearance of the range. The cottage is attractively set in mature landscaped grounds that include a rubble stone outbuilding to south - the neat group formed by the combination of these buildings is an important example of an early vernacular small-size farm holding. The gateway to east is also of interest and is a good example of early surviving iron work - the rubble piers are typical of the vernacular idiom in the locality and are a pleasant landmark on the road side.