Survey Data
Reg No
12308014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
249745, 157958
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house, built 1904, with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to left. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Mansard (shared) slate roof (gabled mansard (shared) to end bay; lean-to to window opening to right first floor) with clay ridge tiles, rendered tapered chimney stacks, timber bargeboards, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls with red brick buttress pier to ground floor, and painted red brick dressings to gable. Square-headed window openings with Diocletian window opening to first floor end bay (one oculus window opening to ground floor) having cut-limestone shallow sills, painted red brick voussoirs to Diocletian window opening, and timber casement windows having leaded glazing. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door having canopy over on stepped consoles. Set back from line of road with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A picturesque modest-scale house built as one of a pair (with 12308029/KK-19-08-29) forming the central feature in a group of six related houses (including 12308012 - 3, 30 - 1/KK-19-08-12 - 3, 30 - 1) representing an integral component 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). Idiosyncratic characteristics contributing to the architectural design value of the composition include the varied profile of the openings, the distinctive profile of the roof, and so on, while the juxtaposition of a number of materials in the construction enhances the Arts-and-Crafts theme of the house. Having been well maintained to present an early aspect the house makes an important impression on the character of the ensemble in the landscape.