Survey Data
Reg No
12305019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1843 - 1900
Coordinates
241434, 164505
Date Recorded
19/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1900, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch. Now disused. Pitched slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with decorative timber bargeboards to gable (porch), and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over inscribed rendered plinth with rendered flush strips to corners. Elliptical-headed opening (porch). Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with sills, and concealed dressings framing timber fittings. Square-headed door opening into house with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and roughcast panelled rendered flush surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Round-headed window openings (gables) with sills, and concealed dressings framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed central window opening to rear (south) elevation with concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window. Set back from line of road with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting iron gate.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Kilkenny with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a windbreak-like porch; and the high pitched roof showing blue-green slate finish. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.