Survey Data
Reg No
15313008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
258982, 253282
Date Recorded
28/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
A pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey estate workers' houses, built c.1880, originally in use as a groom’s house and gardener’s house associated with Joristown House (15313001). Now converted into a single property and in use as a private house having a modern extension to the rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof with a (shared) red brick chimneystack to the centre and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed window openings with lintels over and multi-pane timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber doors. red brick relieving arches over a number of the window and door openings. Single-storey stable block to the rear (north) having hipped timber shingle roof and timber sheeted walls. Gateway with wrought-iron gate gives access to stable block from the house. Building surrounded by the remains of a former walled garden, having red brick internal walls and rubble limestone external construction. Wrought-iron field gate to the north of stable block with interlacing flat bars. Located to the north of Joristown House (15313001) and to the west of Raharney.
Appraisal
A charming pair of late nineteenth-century estate workers' houses associated with Joristown House (15313001), reworked as a single house known as Joristown Lodge, retain much of the original form and fabric. Well-maintained, this appealing composition represents a good example of the consciously picturesque estate architecture of its time. Although extended to the rear (north), this later work blends in sensitively with the original fabric. The former walled garden is an interesting survival and enhances the setting. The good quality wrought-iron gates to site, particularly the elaborate gate to the north with an unusual interlacing pattern, add to this composition and complete the setting.