Survey Data

Reg No

20906513


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Social


Original Use

Country house


In Use As

House


Date

1770 - 1790


Coordinates

185101, 77091


Date Recorded

07/08/2007


Date Updated

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Description

Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1780, having full-height flat-roofed extension to rear (west) in crook of L forming square-plan, recent full-width single-storey extension with single-pitched slate roof to rear elevation, and having flat-roofed bow window to south elevation. Now in use as house and guest house. Skirt slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks having ceramic pots. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth. Square-headed openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, tripartite six-over-six pane flanked by two-over-two pane to south elevation. Round-headed opening with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and limestone sill to south elevation. Round-headed opening with studded timber panelled door flanked by ionic columns with frieze, cornice and spoked fanlight over. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf door with recent render surround to south elevation. Four-bay two-storey former carriage house to rear with pitched slate roof, rendered and rubble stone walls, square-headed and segmental-headed openings with replacement timber fittings. Square-profile rendered rubble stone piers to yard entrance to rear of house. Square-profile rubble stone piers to site entrance having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

Appraisal

Symmetry, simplicity and order to the façade and the emphasis on the entrance, are both typical of the classical influence on large houses in rural Ireland. The classical order to the doorway an overt classical reference. The large fanlight and decorative panelled door are evidence of the craftsmanship and care in the design and execution. Set in mature grounds, enhanced and contextualised by the single remaining outbuilding to the rear.