Survey Data
Reg No
31312130
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Kilmaine Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
125713, 259493
Date Recorded
15/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed central door opening with rendered surround centred on panelled keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house erected as one of a pair of houses (including 31312129) representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Kilmaine with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing feint graduated tiered visual effect. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Michael Maguire (----), 'Sergeant [in] Royal Irish Constabulary' (NA 1901); and (1911) by Samuel Oldfield (----), 'Sergeant [in] Royal Irish Constabulary' (NA 1911).