Survey Data
Reg No
14819084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
205826, 205134
Date Recorded
26/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with extension to rear. Fronting directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to extension. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber casement windows to rear extension. Segmental-headed door opening with fanlight and timber panelled door.
Appraisal
Though modest in design and small in stature, this house forms one of a group of similar structures. The house, like its neighbours, is enhanced by the retention of its timber sash windows and early materials, such as its slate roof. Along with its neighbours, this house forms an aesthetically pleasing group within the streetscape, facing onto the high stone walls which surround Birr Castle Demesne. This building, and two neighbouring buildings to the south, forms part of the streetscape of a photograph taken by the fourth Earl of Rosse in the 1870s and not forms part of the display in Ireland's Historic Science Centre.