Survey Data
Reg No
13402316
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
221311, 261472
Date Recorded
01/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-storey lean-to extension to the northeast gable end. Pitched slate roof with slightly overhanging eaves having timber brackets. Central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised rendered verge to east gable end. Rubble limestone walls, formerly rendered, with some roughcast rendered sections remaining to rear elevation (southeast). Square-headed window openings with mixed two-over-two pane and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation (southeast), having timber lintels and limestone sills. Timber casement windows to front elevation (northwest). Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (northwest) with timber battened door having plain overlight. Outbuilding to rear (southeast) with pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings. Located adjacent to small country lane, to the east of Barry and to the southwest of Legan.
Appraisal
Although now out of use, this charming house and quite picturesque small-scale house retains much of its early character an form. It also retains much of its early fabric including timber sliding sash windows (to the rear elevation) and a natural slate roof. The simple form and the unrefined rubble stone construction lends this modest structure a rustic or vernacular character, however, its form is also quite reminiscent of many estate worker’s houses scattered throughout the Irish countryside. Indeed the owner of this plot of land, and the surrounding plots, c. 1860 was Lord Annaly (either of Tennalick House (13402348) to the south of the Gore family (Barons Annaly from 1766 – 93) or of the White family who had a hunting/fishing lodge at Rathcline House to the west (Henry White granted title of Baron Annaly from 1863). It was the home of a Edward Cody at this time (Griffith’s Valuation). This simple building, which survives in relatively good condition despite being out of use, is a modest addition to the built heritage of the local area.