Survey Data
Reg No
15317057
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1800
Coordinates
218997, 238431
Date Recorded
19/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1790, having a two-bay two-storey section attached to the south end. Three-storey return to the rear (west). One of a pair with the building to the north (15317058). Pitched natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over to the main three-storey section. Mono-pitched roof over section to the south having a castellated parapet over street frontage (east). Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and with twelve-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground and first floor openings and eight-over-four pane timber sash windows to the second floor. Round-headed doorcase to the centre of the three-bay main section having a cut stone architraved doorcase with a timber panelled door and a spoke/radial fanlight over. Similar doorcase to the north end of the front façade (east) of the two-storey block to the south. Road-fronted to the south end of the Newtown suburb to the northeast end of Moate. Low rendered wall with cut stone coping over basement section to entrance front (east).
Appraisal
An elegant and substantial house, of balanced late-Georgian proportions, which retains its early form, character and fabric. The good quality cut limestone doorcases enliven the front façade of the otherwise plain structure. This house forms an attractive pair with its neighbour to the north (15317058), and together they dominate the streetscape to the south of the Newtown suburb of Moate. This building dates to the expansion of Moate during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century and it is an important physical reminder of the relative prosperity enjoyed in Ireland at this time. The attractive mature trees complete the setting of this fine composition.