Survey Data
Reg No
22206306
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
227941, 140484
Date Recorded
17/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey former presbytery, built c. 1880, with three-bay south elevation having canted-bay window, now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and sheeted eaves. Painted roughcast rendered walls to first floor, painted smooth rendered walls to ground floor, with render platband and quoins to front, with render plinth throughout. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with painted sills. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled double doors flanked by decorative render panelled pilasters with entablature and tripartite fanlight, having limestone steps. Outbuilding to rear. Rusticated limestone piers and entrance walls and cast-iron gates to road.
Appraisal
The large-paned window openings are an indication of the development in glass technology in the late nineteenth century. Interest is added by the bay window in the side elevation. The centralised chimneystacks and hipped roof are typical of middle-sized houses of this period, and in particular presbyteries, in Co. Tipperary. The overhanging eaves give the effect of anchoring this quite large structure in the surrounding landscape.