Survey Data
Reg No
32403805
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
159093, 309342
Date Recorded
25/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870. Front (south) elevation with central three-arched recessed porch flanked by slightly-projecting gable fronts, rear (north) elevation blank except for two small windows one at ground floor and one at first floor, lower two-storey L-plan wing extends from north-east. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to north-east, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, ashlar stone verges returning on horizontal as springers to gables, profiled extruded aluminium gutters. Painted smooth-rendered walling, first floor platband, impost string at ground floor, moulded plinth. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor, square-headed to first floor, hood mouldings and keystones to gable fronts, limestone sills, hardwood one-over-one casement windows c. 1970, painted timber sash windows in porch. Round-headed arches to porch, one infilled, moulded ashlar limestone archivolts with plain keystones on impost moulding on square ashlar limestone piers. Square-headed door opening within porch, moulded lintel with keystone, painted timber door with three panels. Open pasture to south, walled garden to east, woodland to west, ashlar limestone gate piers with pyramidal caps, original gates missing.
Appraisal
Doobeg house is a fine mid-nineteenth-centruy house that retains much of its original character. This, rather unusually proportioned, country house adopts a basically formal design which seems incomplete and stripped down. The recessed entrance porch, despite one of the three arched bays being infilled, contains high quality ashlar stone work detailing.