Survey Data
Reg No
21835005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1920 - 1960
Coordinates
137939, 121076
Date Recorded
30/06/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey pair of houses, built c. 1940, now comprising single semi-detached house and garda station having recent porches to front (east) and side (south) elevations. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, timber clad eaves and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Rendered walls to porches with render canopies. Square-headed window openings with render sills and raised rendered surrounds throughout. Six-over-six and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to side (north) elevation. Three-over-six and one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor rear (west) elevation. Timber-framed tripartite window to ground floor rear elevation having central six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window flanked by two-over-two pane timber sliding sash sidelights. Occasional replacement timber casement windows to side (south) and rear elevations. Blocked window opening to north end of rear elevation. Oculus window openings to side (north and south, east and west) elevations of porches having raised rendered surrounds and fixed single-pane windows. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, having tooled limestone step and timber panelled door to front elevation. Rendered step and timber battened door to side (south) elevation. Tooled limestone steps, raised rendered surrounds and glazed timber doors to rear elevation. Roughcast rendered wall to rear elevation having rendered plinth and coping. Group of flat-roofed outbuildings to west, having roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, timber battened doors and flanking glazed timber sidelights . Located within its own grounds, having roughcast rendered enclosing wall with render coping to east. Square-profile roughcast rendered piers and gate piers to splayed entrance with double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
These pair of houses, located towards the south of Drumcolliher, makes an important contribution the diversity of the town's architectural heritage. The building has retained much of its historic character and form through the retention of key features including its various forms of sash windows and timber battened doors. The inclusion of ocular openings to the porches draw further attention to the doors.