Survey Data
Reg No
15702115
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1855 - 1901
Coordinates
309435, 140546
Date Recorded
12/07/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey side elevations. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Hipped square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings centred on keystone framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Patrick's Catholic Church.
Appraisal
A parochial house erected by Reverend Patrick Kenny PP (1823-1911; fl. 1855-1911) representing an important component of the late nineteenth-century built heritage of Oulart with the architectural value of the composition, one evoking favourable comparisons with the contemporary parochial house (1897) in Blackwater (see 15613005), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a parochial house forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjacent Saint Patrick's Catholic Church (see 15702114) and an adjacent chapel (see 15702116) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village setting.