Survey Data
Reg No
60230059
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Saint Margaret's
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1844 - 1866
Coordinates
322185, 226043
Date Recorded
20/11/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1866, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront on a square plan abutting single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1917, to accommodate alternative use. Vacant, 2004. Restored, 2008. Replacement pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan including gablet (east) centred on replacement sprocketed slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, rendered buttressed chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta pots, cut-granite coping to gables on rendered kneelers with monolithic finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement rendered walls on rendered plinth. Pointed-arch central door opening approached by flight of four cut-granite steps, cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on label stops framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings (breakfront) with cut-granite chamfered sills, and "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite chamfered sills, and "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite chamfered sills, and "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in relandscaped grounds with rendered channelled piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped shallow pyramidal capping supporting crocketed cast-iron double gates.
Appraisal
A house representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact, albeit multifaceted plan form centred on a "Châteauesque" breakfront; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by a polygonal bay window; and the high pitched gabled roofline. Having been successfully restored following a period of unoccupancy, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior where contemporary joinery; chimneypieces; and decorative plasterwork enrichments, all highlight the artistic potential of a house having historic connections with Keith Hamilton Hallowes (1844-1936); and Thomas Davis (1823-98) and Margaret Davis (1823-1912), 'late of Saint Margaret's Foxrock County Dublin' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1898, 108; 1912, 140).