Survey Data
Reg No
40905383
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Office
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1900
Coordinates
222358, 415695
Date Recorded
18/11/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former land agent’s house or estate worker’s house associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409), built c. 1875. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-west and south-west). Roughcast rendered walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with painted sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway, offset to the north-west side of centre, having battened timber door. Set slightly back of rear laneway serving Castlegrove, and to the north-west of the main house. Yard to front (north-east) having two-bay single-storey outbuilding with mono-pitched roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors. Section of rubble stone boundary wall to the south-east.
Appraisal
This modest two-storey dwelling, originally dating to the last decades of the nineteenth century, was originally built as an estate worker’s house or land agent’s house associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409). Its visual expression and integrity are enhanced by the retention of salient fabric such as the natural slate roof with the timber sliding sash windows. The irregularly-spaced window openings lend this building a vaguely vernacular appearance that contrasts with the rigid classicism of the main house itself to the south-east (the image may be of the rear elevation). This building is located along a service laneway to the rear of Castlegrove, and forms part of a group of structures associated with the main house along with the complex of outbuildings (see 40905331) to the south-east, walled garden (see 40905330) to the south having altered two-storey former gardener’s house, and with the gateway (see 40905340) and gate lodge to the west, and is a modest addition to the built heritage of the local area.