Survey Data
Reg No
22402908
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1685 - 1840
Coordinates
208739, 172885
Date Recorded
06/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1820, but possibly incorporating fabric of house of 1690. Projecting cut limestone Ionic portico with flight of steps to entrance and with slightly-recessed three-bay three-storey wing to northwest.Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and paired eaves brackets. Roughcast rendered walls to main block, dressed limestone to basement, with cut limestone sting course, render quoins and with moulded render surrounds to window openings, shouldered to ground floor. Exposed rubble limestone walls to later block, with brick voussoirs to openings. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and eight-over-eight to first floor, of main block, two-over-two pane to later block and replacement elsewhere, with limestone sills. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door with render surround. Bow windows to south elevation with carved limestone surrounds. Decorative cast and wrought-iron balcony to west elevation. Multiple-bay single and two-storey outbuildings to west, having rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone voussoirs to segmental-arched carriage openings and lunette windows. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard with wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
This imposing house is an interesting and notable example of late Georgian architecture in Ireland and interestingly possibly also incorporates late seventeenth-century fabric. The house retains its form and structure, which is enhanced by original features such as the carved limestone decorative window surrounds, and the ornate cast and wrought-iron balcony. The highly decorative portico adds artistic interest to the building, and is clearly the work of skilled craftsmen. The house, together with the outbuildings form a notable group of demesne structures.