Survey Data
Reg No
22106008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1805 - 1815
Coordinates
233381, 139844
Date Recorded
13/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1810, with double-pile two-storey over basement return to rear, having entrance porch to gable of return. Renovated c.1930. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast rendered walls to first floor, ruled-and-lined render to ground floor front and gables, with render quoins and platband. Smooth rendered to rear. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with mainly replacement uPVC windows to rear. Timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight, flanked by partially fluted render pilasters supporting render cornice, with flight of limestone steps. Multiple-bay single-storey with loft outbuilding to rear has hipped slate roof and rendered walls. Rendered rubble limestone boundary walls with octagonal cut limestone piers with decoratively-carved caps, and rusticated limestone plinths with cut stone copings, having decorative cast-iron railings and cast-iron pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
The former religious function of this building is evident in the cross design in the vehicular gates, and its former public nature is obvious from its turnstile pedestrian gate. The three-bay two-storey façade with central chimneystacks over hipped roofs is typical of presbyteries in South Tipperary, as well as in middle-sized houses. The façade is enlivened by a finely-detailed render doorcase, with classical egg-and-dart moulding.