Survey Data
Reg No
20860014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Almshouse
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
172358, 73908
Date Recorded
01/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former almshouse, built c.1830, with gable-fronted end bay. Currently in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks having platbands, timber bargeboards to gables and projecting eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cast-iron diamond pane pivot windows set in timber frames. Oriel window to attic with four-paned timber casement window. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-grooved timber door and stone threshold. Set back from road with rockface to rear. Wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth and square-profile piers with wrought-iron gate to road front.
Appraisal
This house is an important example of landlord-built housing from the early nineteenth century. One of a group of three, the group is an eye-catching roadside addition, which retains much of its historic character and fabric intact. The houses are linked the Colthurst-Bart family of Blarney Castle, who apparently built them as almshouses. The family was prominent in nineteenth century Cork charitable institutions, and held significant tracts of land to the north of the city.