Survey Data
Reg No
13401806
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
214139, 270331
Date Recorded
30/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having later flat-roofed windbreak porch to front elevation (southeast) and a lower single-storey extension attached to southwest gable end. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends (southwest and northeast), lined-and-ruled rendered chimneystacks and some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; lined-and-ruled rendered finish to windbreak porch having rendered dentils to cornice. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch having timber battened door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Killashee and the west of Ardagh. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south having corrugated-metal roof and roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Entrance gates to the northeast comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan), rendered boundary walls and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. House approached down short avenue from the road to the northeast having rubble stone boundary walls.
Appraisal
Although disused, this modest vernacular house retains much of its early character and form. It survives in good condition and retains much of its fabric, including timber sliding sash windows. The steeply pitched roof suggests that this building was formerly thatched. The position of one of the chimneystacks, roughly in line with the windbreak porch, hints that this building has/had the lobby-entry plan that is typical of the vernacular architecture of the midlands of Ireland. This building is aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment, another characteristic feature of buildings of this type. Buildings of this type were once a ubiquitous feature of the rural Irish landscape but are now becoming increasingly rare making this example at Cordivin an interesting survival. The porch is a later addition, perhaps added during the first half of the twentieth century, and has unusual render detailing that was perhaps influenced by more formal Classical architecture. The simple outbuilding to the south, and the rubble stone boundary walls to the site north add to the setting and context of this building, which is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area. The simple wrought-iron gates to the main entrance have some modest decorative flourishes, and add interest to the roadscape to the east of Killashee.