Survey Data
Reg No
12400401
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
241288, 172268
Date Recorded
26/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single- and two-storey house, c.1825, on an irregular plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, comprising two-bay single-storey recessed central bay with single-bay single-storey projecting flanking bays on half-octagonal plans, single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to right on a half-octagonal plan, and three-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation with half-dormer attic having single-bay single-storey return to north-east extending into five-bay two-storey service return to north. Extensively renovated with replacement three-bay single-storey lean-to projecting glazed porch added to central bay. Hipped slate roofs (continuing into half-polygonal sections to projecting bays; lean-to to porch; gabled to half-dormer attic windows; pitched to service return) with clay ridge tiles, grouped (five-part arrangement) rendered diagonal chimney stacks having stringcourses, and iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (originally in bipartite arrangement to flanking bays) with cut-stone sills, some having rendered hood mouldings over, six-over-six (ground floor service return) and three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having some replacement uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed openings to porch with glazed uPVC panelled double doors on three cut-stone steps having overlight, and fixed-pane (six-light) flanking lights. Square-headed door opening to house with glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed door openings to service return with diagonal timber boarded doors. Interior with carved timber architraves to door openings having timber panelled doors, and timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1825, to north. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond squat chimney stack, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings (including one to first floor side (south) elevation approached by flight of squared rubble stone steps) with timber lintels, and timber fittings including half-doors.
Appraisal
A substantial house of individual character on account of the presence of distinctive attributes including profiled projecting bays together with a slightly oversailing low-slung roof: occupying a complex footprint it is possible that the present composition evolved over a prolonged period of time or alternatively represents an eighteenth-century range redeveloped in the early nineteenth century. However, although many of the early attributes survive in place together with much of the historic fabric both to the exterior and to the interior the continued replacement of the fittings to the openings with inappropriate modern articles threatens to further undermine the character of the site. An attendant outbuilding range of modest, almost rustic quality enhances the group and setting values of the site in the landscape. The house remains of additional importance in the locality for the connections with Bishop Kyran Marum (1770-1827), Bishop of Ossory (1814/5-27), together with the Staunton family.