Survey Data
Reg No
32401105
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
139087, 337343
Date Recorded
18/08/2004
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached three- or five-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, built 1855, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting breakfront; pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey returns centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Disused, 2004. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront) with pair of pitched slate roofs centred on hipped slate roof (north), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases on axis with ridge having cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, quatrefoil-detailed decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods surviving on slightly overhanging exposed timber rafters. Rendered walls on drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (breakfront) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered flush sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (gable) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Tudor-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber panelled double doors. Pairs of square-headed window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (gables) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A house representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the environs of Easky with the architectural value of the composition, one erected by Peter Hale (d. 1864) on a site obtained (1855) through the Encumbered Estates Court, confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed breakfront; the multipartite glazing patterns; the silver-grey limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched roof. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, a walled garden (extant 1910); and a nearby gate lodge (extant 1910), all continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of an estate having historic connections with the Hale family including James C. Hale (1820-75) 'late of Templeview Dromore West County Sligo' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1875, 282); and James Howley Hale (1868-1919). NOTE: Occupied (1901) by Lawrence Moloney (----), 'Steward' (NA 1901); and (1911) by John Quinn (----), 'Steward' (NA 1911).