Survey Data
Reg No
20853072
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
176690, 65605
Date Recorded
17/04/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey over basement with dormer attic house, built c.1830, having breakfront end bay with full-height canted bay window to front (south-east). Later hipped roof two-storey addition with canted oriel to rear (north-west). Pitched and hipped slate roof with overhanging timber clad eaves, having rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and recent rooflights. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack to rear addition, having cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered wall to front elevation. Rendered buttresses flanking panels with blind pointed arches and moulded cornices to canted bay. Rubble stone wall to rear elevation, with slate hanging and rendered walls to rear addition. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout. Pointed arch four-over-four and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows in single and bipartite arrangements to front elevation. Yellow brick voussoirs and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation, having uPVC casement window to basement. Six-over-six and four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and timber mullions to oriel. Square-headed door opening to front elevation, containing carved timber doorcase comprising carved timber colonettes surmounted by pointed archivolts with spandrels. Pointed arch panelled timber door flanked by pointed arch sidelights and surmounted by multiple-pane overlight with lancet tracery. Recessed square-headed door opening to basement of rear elevation having replacement glazed timber door. Rubble stone enclosing wall to south-east with rendered square-profile gate piers and cast-iron gate. Rubble stone enclosing wall with square-profile gate pier to rear, having wrought-iron gate.
Appraisal
One of a fine terrace of eight houses which were designed by renowned Cork architect, Henry Hill. Set overlooking the harbour, the terrace was built just as Monkstown was becoming a fashionable seaside resort. The projecting bays are a particularly notable feature of the group, with their fanciful traceried windows, stepped buttresses and pointed arch panelled panels. Though some houses have lost parts of their original fabric, nonetheless the terrace as a whole makes a valuable contribution to the streetscape. The surviving historic features could act as templates for the reinstatement of lost elements in the future.