Survey Data
Reg No
14819283
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
205732, 205637
Date Recorded
07/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey worker's house with attic, built c.1870, and return rear. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, timber bargeboards with finial to gable and cast-iron rainwater goods. Catslide roof to return. Pebbledashed walls with timber eaves course. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber battened door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by timber fence. Shared outhouse to rear site. Random coursed stone wall with piers and wrought-iron gate bounds rear site.
Appraisal
This structure is the first of a picturesque row of cottages located just outside the demesne of Birr Castle. This terrace of aesthetically pleasing cottages was built for the employees if the Birr Castle estate. The decorative bargeboards, door canopy and six-over-six timber sash windows set the pattern for the style and character of these houses which won a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal in the 1870s.