Survey Data
Reg No
12507080
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
247420, 198122
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with front garden. Pitched slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, pair of centrally placed red brick chimneystacks with clay pots and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber fascia, ball finial to apex of north gable. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling, render quoins and rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with moulded render architrave surrounds, with painted concrete sills. To the ground floor the architraves are kneed with keystones, to the north gable at both levels the surrounds have keystones and window aprons. Two-over-two timber sash windows with ogee horns. Central square-headed door opening with architrave surround, kneed to plinth blocks with a diamond-faced keystone and a pair of shoulder stones, replacement hardwood panelled door and overlight. Door opens onto concrete step and footpath through front garden enclosed to road by rendered wall and a steel pedestrian gate. The north side garden area is enclosed by a tall rendered wall, with a pair of tall piers with ball finials and corrugated iron gates.
Appraisal
A fine late nineteenth-century house, elaborately embellished in its façade treatment and retaining a wealth of historic fabric. It is one of the most intact houses on Well Road and makes a strong positive contribution to the architectural landscape of Portlaoise.