Survey Data
Reg No
14819286
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
205733, 205650
Date Recorded
07/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with return. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, timber bargeboards with finial to gable and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with timber eaves course. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door with overhanging canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by timber fence. Shared outhouse to rear site.
Appraisal
This structure terminates a terrace of nineteenth-century cottages which won a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal for their design in the 1870s. The location and size of these houses show that they were worker's cottages for the Birr Castle demesne. The buildings themselves retain many original features including windows, doors, timberwork and slates, confirming the terrace's architectural significance.