Survey Data
Reg No
15302004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
245950, 270180
Date Recorded
07/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-storey four-bay estate worker's/local authority house, built c.1880, having a projecting gable-fronted porch with bargeboards to the front façade. Formerly in use as a private residence and currently unoccupied. One of a group of six. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, red clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stepped brick quoins to the corners. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having brick surrounds and a timber battened door. Rubble limestone boundary wall to the north. Set back from road in own grounds with gardens front and rear. Located to the west of Castlepollard.
Appraisal
This small estate workers/local authority house retains its original form and fabric. It represents the best surviving example of a group of six former worker's/local authority houses, the rest of which have been altered or demolished in recent years. Possibly originally built as an estate worker's house serving the nearby Tullynally Estate in the late nineteenth-century. The house remains an attractive feature of historic appearance, contributes significantly to the visual appeal of the street scene to the west of Castlepollard.