Survey Data
Reg No
22204909
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
Museum/gallery
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
232383, 152064
Date Recorded
04/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1845, with central gablet to front elevation, and single-storey lean-to addition to south gable, now in use as museum. Pitched slate roof with eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber double sliding sash two-over-six pane windows and having replacement timber panelled door with upper glazed panel. Door and only three windows to rear elevation. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear have pitched slate and barrel corrugated-iron roofs, unpainted rendered walls, and square-headed openings.
Appraisal
Now a National Monument, this building has been sympathetically restored. Interestingly, it has two very contrasting elevations - the front with large, evenly-spaced symmetrical windows and central gablet, the rear with a more haphazard arrangement. In 1848 it was the home of Widow McCormick, whose young children were held hostage by Police Captain Trant while under siege by a group of Young Irelanders including William Smith O'Brien, James Stephens, and Terence Bellew McManus.