Survey Data
Reg No
60260067
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Shankill Lodge
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1837
Coordinates
324556, 221750
Date Recorded
14/02/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Occupied, 1911. Reroofed. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched artificial slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-granite capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite capping supporting flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary late Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary 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 a farmhouse having historic connections with the Carr family including Denis Carr (d. 1882), 'Farmer late of Shankill County Dublin' (Thom's Irish Almanac 1877, 1536; Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1888, 98).