Survey Data
Reg No
31303013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1896
Coordinates
122134, 319547
Date Recorded
25/02/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height gabled advanced end bay. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond buttressed chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below rendered capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on nail head-detailed purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls with vitrified blue brick-detailed red brick Running bond stringcourse. Camber-headed central door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold, and rendered surround having splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings (ground floor) or red brick block-and-start surrounds (half-dormer attic) supporting dragged cut-limestone lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Interior including (ground floor): entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled chamfered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the suburban environs of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary Ruskinian Gothic fashion, confirmed by such attributes as the compact, albeit multi-faceted plan form; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual effect with the principal "apartment" or reception room defined by a handsome bay window; the brick work producing a mild polychromatic palette; and the miniature gablets embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1896) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble having historic connections with Peter Lionel Petrie (b. 1850), 'Salmon Fisheries Lessee' (NA 1911; Irish Times 7th September 1922, 6).