Survey Data
Reg No
22208203
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
215455, 122379
Date Recorded
24/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey house, built c.1800, having nine-bay ground floor and seven-bay first floor, with later two-storey outbuilding attached to full length of rear elevation to give overall M-profile roof. Formerly possibly two houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime-rendered walls with openings highlighted with limewash or painted margins. Timber sash windows throughout, three-over-six pane to first floor and one-over-one pane to ground floor and with two-over-two pane to west gable. Square-headed doorways in front elevation, eastern with timber panelled door with overlight and western with replacement glazed timber door. Attached outbuilding has pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rubble limestone walls. Square-headed timber louvered windows and tall segmental-arched entrance to rear elevation. Two-storey multiple-bay stable-block to north-west with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and timber battened windows and half-doors. Yard of single-storey and two-storey outbuildings to rear of house with pitched slate roofs and rubble limestone walls, square-headed and arched openings. Yard entered through metal double-leaf gates from south. Gardens with rendered boundary walls to front, entered through wrought-iron garden gate. Double-leaf cast-iron gates to yard, between rendered piers with decorative caps.
Appraisal
This unusually long farmhouse is a strong feature on this local road from the west into Clonmel. The retention of timber sash windows and various iron gates enhances the site. The accompanying outbuildings contribute greatly the farming context of the property.