Survey Data
Reg No
31304204
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1833 - 1838
Coordinates
67053, 308276
Date Recorded
12/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Replacement pitched fibre-cement tile roof with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables, rooflight to rear (west) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Street fronted.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the built heritage of Doogort with the architectural value of the composition, one erected as part of the so-called "Colony" founded (1833) by Reverend Edward Nangle (1799-1883) of the Church of Ireland Missionary Society (Lawson 1842, 393; Hall 1843 III, 385), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a replacement porch; and the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. NOTE: The home of Neason Wildridge "Saint Luke" Adams (1777-1859) who gave up a lucrative medical practice in Kingstown [Dún Laoghaire] to tend to the poor and sick of Achill Island.