Survey Data
Reg No
20904412
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
173708, 89208
Date Recorded
28/02/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1820, on site of eighteenth-century house. Older house faced north into formal courtyard of two-storey outbuildings. Present house faces south. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Rear elevation has square-headed replacement windows, oval window to frist floor with wheel-spoke glazing and round-headed stairs window with spoked fanlight, having cut limestone sills. Doorway with fanlight to front façade, approached by flight of steps. Two courtyards of outbuildings to north, that directly behind house being part of eighteenth-century complex of older house. Landscaped gardens to front of house.
Appraisal
The present house at Bridestown was built in the early nineteenth century to replace a house built in the previous century. The surviving outbuilding ranges are very finely built and must reflect the quality of the now disappeared house. The present house, at five bays and two storeys, is typical of North Cork and retains its form and many features, such as the round-headed and oval windows to the rear.