Survey Data
Reg No
14932004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1650 - 1750
Coordinates
223095, 213985
Date Recorded
18/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1760, in front of earlier gable-ended two-storey over basement with attic house, c.1650. Hipped slate roof to front section with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to rear section with chimneystacks located over gable end walls. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with sandstone sills and uPVC and aluminum windows. Narrow sills to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with granite block-and-start surround with spoked fanlight, timber panelled double doors and flanked by sidelights. Door accessed up four sandstone steps. The interior of this front section of the house is decorated with impressive ceiling plasterwork, an elegant touch for a rural house. Two-storey stone outbuildings and modern sheds to rear yard. Sandstone flat-arched to openings to outbuilding.
Appraisal
Located on an elevation site overlooking the nearby Silver River, this farmhouse is a notable feature within the landscape. The arrangement and composition of Cappagowlan reflects the development of Irish domestic architecture. Here a late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century house was constructed in front of an earlier seventeenth-century house. Both houses display features and architectural motifs typical to these periods. The later house has a hipped roof and a wonderful round-headed door surround with a spoked fanlight and sandstone steps. The earlier house, to the rear, has a steeply pitched roof, thick exterior walls, flagstones to its interior, irregular fenestration and roughly cut sandstone sills.