Survey Data
Reg No
12308010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1895 - 1900
Coordinates
249743, 158001
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay single-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house, built 1896-9. One of a group of three. Pitched (shared) roof with clay tile, clay ridge tiles, red brick Common (seventh course headers) bond (shared) chimney stacks having saw tooth-profiled courses, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction with brick panels. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and timber casement windows having leaded glazing. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site, red brick piers having saw tooth-profiled courses supporting cut-limestone capping, and wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A pleasantly-composed small-scale house built as part of a self-contained group of three individual units (with 12308009, 11/KK-19-08-09, 11) representing an important element of a planned village built to designs prepared by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) for Ellen Odette Desart (née Bischoffsheim), fourth Countess of Desart (1857-1933) as accommodation for workers associated with the Kilkenny Woodworkers Company together with the nearby Greenvale Woollen Mills (12308004/KK-19-08-04). Exhibiting characteristics redolent of the Arts-and-Crafts style the architectural design value of the house is enhanced by features including the distinctive brick work panels introducing an element of polychromy to the composition. Having been very well maintained the house presents an early aspect, thereby making a significant impression on the character of the complex.