Ardfert Parish Room, church hall in County Kerry

What is recorded here

Ardfert Parish Room has little stone staircases climbing its gables, which is a grand provision for crows. They can fly, of course, but arriving on foot gives them time to tell everyone how bad the knees are.

Detached three-bay single-storey meeting hall with dormer attic, built c. 1915, with single-bay single-storey crow-stepped gabled projecting porch to left, crow-stepped gable ends and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to east. Built by local landlord Lindsey Talbot. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with red clay ridge tiles (missing from main roof), limestone crow-step to gables, and having red brick chimneystack with stone cornice. Red brick English garden bond walls with projecting plinth. Pedimented limestone name plaque to west gable. Timber multiple pane casement windows with limestone sills, lintels and mullions and having chamfered brick reveals. Projecting gabled porch having round-headed doorway with brick arch. Square-headed doorway to east end with limestone lintel. Gateway, built c. 1915, to south comprising pair of red brick piers with limestone ashlar capping having wrought-iron gates and railings. Stone boundary walls with rounded copings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21302004

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