Survey Data
Reg No
14819287
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
205736, 205659
Date Recorded
07/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with return. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards with finial to gable end and dormer attic window. Catslide roof to return. Roughcast render to walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills, oculus to attic. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door half-door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by low hedge. Wrought-iron gate to rear site.
Appraisal
This charming cottage forms part of an important and attractive group of structures possibly built as worker's houses for the Birr Castle demesne. The material character of the house is enhanced by the survival of features such as the finely carved door canopy, timber sash windows and the decorative circular pivot oculus. The cottage, with its aesthetically pleasing design, was part of a larger scheme that won a Royal Agricultural Society Medal for their design in the 1870s, emphasising their architectural significance.