Survey Data
Reg No
14819025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Sexton's house
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
206044, 205232
Date Recorded
23/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay two-storey gable-fronted former sexton's house, built c.1830, with single-storey porch to façade. Now in private residential use. Fronts directly onto Oxmantown Mall. Pitched roof with terracotta pantiles, ridge cresting, red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Terracotta pantiles and ridge cresting to porch. Pebbledashed walls and exposed timber beams to gable. Timber casement windows with stone sills. Stained glass oculus to east elevation. Projecting entrance porch with square-headed door opening having timber battened door and stone threshold. Low plinth wall to road with limestone coping stones, bounding site to east. Landscaped public walkway to west.
Appraisal
This attractive dwelling was built to house the sexton of Saint Brendan's Church of Ireland Church. With a number of decorative devices including the small stained glass oculus found in the east elevation and the exposed timber beams on the façade, its design is quite appealing. The house is enhanced by its setting of Oxmantown Mall and it is a notable element within the tree-lined avenue, which is terminated to the east by the entrance gates of Birr Castle and to the west by the church.