Survey Data
Reg No
13401446
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
224235, 272283
Date Recorded
27/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic storey, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1900, having single-bay windbreak porch to the centre of the front elevation (east). Now in disuse. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with two central rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having timber battened poor with glazed overlight. Located along the main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road, to the west of Edgeworthstown. Building set slightly back from road and aligned at a right angle to the road alignment.
Appraisal
This modest single-storey vernacular house retains its early character. Modest in scale and form, this house exhibits the simple and functional form of traditional vernacular dwellings in Ireland. Its original character has been preserved in the retention of features and materials such timber sliding sash windows and the windbreak porch to the entrance. This building is aligned at a right angle to the road alignment, a common feature of the Irish vernacular tradition. This building is quite symmetrical to the front elevation, which is an unusual feature for a vernacular dwelling of its type. Map information (Ordnance Survey six-inch maps 1838 and 1914) suggest that this building was extended along its length to the south at some stage, perhaps c. 1900. The corrugated-metal roof hints that this building was formerly thatched, while the large expanse of blank walling between the window openings and the eaves suggests that the walls of this building were raised at some stage to accommodate a less steeply pitched roof. This dwelling is of a type that was once commonplace in Irish towns and villages but now becoming increasingly rare, making this an important surviving example of its type. This building is an interesting feature along the main Edgeworthstown to Longford Town road, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.