Survey Data
Reg No
13401335
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
211798, 273165
Date Recorded
25/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay single-storey house with attic storey, and with entrance elevation facing away from road, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1900. Flat-roofed windbreak porch to the main elevation (southeast) offset to the southwest side of centre. Single-storey outbuilding to the southwest, aligned along axis of main house, having corrugated-metal roof. Pitched artificial slate roof with ridge crestings and with three rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth; smooth rendered vertical strips/bands to corners. Ruled-and-lined rendered finish to windbreak porch. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch with timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to yard with pitched corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed door opening with cast-iron gate. Rendered garden wall to entrance front (southeast), rendered plinth with metal railings to road elevation (northwest). Set back from road with garden to front and yard to rear, with outbuilding to south gable connecting it to three-bay two-storey house. Located to the southwest of Longford Town.
Appraisal
This modest vernacular house retains much of its early character and scale, despite the loss of some of its original fabric. The margined glazed windows, added c. 1900, on this building are particularly notable for the interesting design, and they help add a decorative element to this otherwise plain vernacular building. Such windows, combined with other decorative features such as the ridge crestings, are an interesting counterpoint to the many features which indicate a vernacular origin - the windbreak porch, the modest size, and the orientation away from the principal road. This makes an interesting group with its semi-detached neighbour, and provides architectural interest to the roadscape to the southwest of Longford Town.