Survey Data
Reg No
12303023
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1905 - 1910
Coordinates
245095, 170919
Date Recorded
06/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1908, with single-bay two-storey advanced end bay to right, and single-bay two-storey return to east. Refenestrated. Hipped artificial slate roof (hipped to end bay; hipped to return) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining timber window to centre first floor having paired trefoil-headed apertures incorporating fixed-pane leaded stained glass panels. Round-headed door opening in round-headed recess in unpainted rendered advanced doorcase with cut-limestone step, bull-nose reveals, cut-limestone date stone keystone, timber panelled door having overlight, and frieze to doorcase having moulded cornice supporting cut-limestone blocking course. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to front (west) having coping, red brick piers having shallow pyramidal capping, and red brick English Garden Wall bond boundary wall to remainder of site having chamfered coping. (ii) Detached four-bay two-storey red brick outbuilding, built 1908, to east with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick eaves. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, red brick voussoirs, and timber fittings including some louvered panel fittings. Square-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with concrete lintel, and no fittings.
Appraisal
A well-appointed modest-scale house representing an important element of the early twentieth-century domestic architectural heritage of Ballyragget. Fine detailing enhancing the architectural design value of the composition includes the Classical-style dressings to the porch while fittings such as the stained glass panels introduce an element of artistic significance to the site. However, the external expression of the composition has not benefited from the replacement fittings inserted to most of the openings. An attendant outbuilding displaying a construction in red brick lends a polychromatic quality enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the grounds in the townscape.