Survey Data
Reg No
21521045
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
157060, 156137
Date Recorded
25/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1900, with three-sided canted bay windows flanking a centrally-placed segmental-arched front door. Hipped natural slate roof with central valley and sprocketed timber eaves. Rendered chimneystacks symmetrically placed on ridge to front and rear span, each with stringcourse, corbelled cornice, and octagonal clay pots. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls with vermiculated rusticated quoins and frieze architrave beneath eaves. Segmental-arched window openings to first floor, with stucco architraves, vermiculated keystones, and limestone sills. Masonry three-sided canted bay windows with continuous limestone sill, ovolo-moulded reveals and vermiculated stucco keystones. Bay window surmounted by cornice with cast-iron cresting above. One-over-one timber sash windows throughout with ogee horns, the upper sash following the arc of the segmental head. Segmental-arched door opening with moulded stucco architrave with vermiculated keystone and stepped limestone entrance platform. Doorcase comprising Doric pilasters joined by dentil lintel cornice forming leaded coloured glass sidelights over panelled timber bases and timber door leaf of some distinction with fan motif to convex panel corners. Tripartite leaded coloured glass fanlight. Front site enclosed by high painted roughcast rendered all with arched pedestrian gate having cast-iron gate, placed axially to the front door. Vehicular gate opening to south with wrought-steel gates.
Appraisal
This detached suburban house of the early twentieth century, is quite formal and classically derived when compared with the exuberant eclectic approach to many of the late Victorian and Edwardian terraces of the inner suburbs of Limerick City. It is separated from the road by a high boundary wall which adds significantly to the character of this house. Very much intact retaining many original features such as sash windows, a distinct timber door leaf, and leaded coloured glass.