Survey Data
Reg No
32400805
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Lissadill House
Original Use
Workshop
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
161920, 344596
Date Recorded
03/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay two-storey rendered former gas house with gasometer, built c. 1833, now derelict. Rectangular plan, extensions to rear (east). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted roughcast corbelled chimneystacks, dressed ashlar stone verge copings, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves, cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted roughcast walling. Segmental-headed window openings, stone sills, remnants of painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Yard with high rubble stone boundary wall to east, containing a cast iron bolas which ws an integral part to the manufacture of the gas from the coal.
Appraisal
Lissadell was the first private house in Ireland to be lit with gas. This gas house also contained the residence of the gas house keeper and the gas retort, the latter of which is no longer present. It retains a great deal of interest including an intact slate roof and remnants of various joinery components.