Survey Data
Reg No
22205306
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
208188, 146797
Date Recorded
28/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1860, facing south, having slightly recessed centre bays to front and rear elevations and slightly advanced centre bay to west elevation. Gable-fronted porch to front elevation and lean-to addition to centre of rear elevation. Gable-fronts to front and rear of end bays and to centre bay of west elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs, having projecting eaves and terracotta finials to gables, uPVC replacement rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rendered quoins and painted plinth. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with cut limestone sills having render hood-mouldings to front and west elevations to ground and first floors. Margined sash window to first floor of rear elevation. Porch has one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to side-walls, with cut limestone sills and reached by flight of cut limestone steps with rendered parapets with cut limestone copings. Round-headed doorway with hood-moulding, timber panelled door and plain fanlight. Yard of outbuildings to north-east, comprising L-plan arrangement of part-ruined two-storey outbuildings with hipped slate roofs and brick chimneystack, rendered rubble limestone walls, square-headed timber louvered windows and square- and segmental-headed entrance openings. Gate-lodge to road is five-bay single-storey with attic, having pitched artificial slate roof and uPVC replacement door and windows. Recent metal double-leaf gates to rendered piers and walls.
Appraisal
This house has many features of late-nineteenth century domestic architecture, such as its many gables and hood-mouldings. Typically the decorative details are restricted to the public elevations of the house. The recessing and projecting of the centre bays add interest to the plan. The retention of timber sash windows enhances the building and the associated outbuildings add considerably to its context. A good view of the Rock of Cashel seems likely to have informed the siting and orientation of the house.