Survey Data
Reg No
13001031
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
213249, 276009
Date Recorded
01/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1927, with two stepped projecting gabled bays to front elevation (west) and a full-height bowed bay to the south elevation. Single-storey extension and single-storey garage to the rear (east). Pitched and half-hipped tiled roof with rendered chamfered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Brick buttress to front elevation entrance, adjacent to doorway. Terracotta tiled gables to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and multi-paned timber casement windows. Canopy to entrance with brackets and moulded cornice. Square-headed doorway with glazed and timber panelled door. Capped rendered gate piers with wrought-iron double leaf gates to the west. Situated in landscaped gardens to the north of Longford Town.
Appraisal
The visual appeal of this house is due in part to the steeply pitched red tiled roofs, and the use of small paned timber casement windows. Such features associate it with the Arts and Crafts movement of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. This was a period when the domination of historical styles was being questioned and some architects were looking for inspiration to the traditional vernacular buildings of the countryside. Buildings of this type are rare in rural Ireland, being more commonly found in the suburbs the bigger towns and cities, particularly Dublin. Sympathetic maintenance allows its continued contribution to the architectural variety of the streetscape to the north end of Longford Town and it represents an integral element of the architectural heritage of the area.