Bantard House

Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan house, built c. 1870, comprising gabled breakfront with box-bay window, full-height bay windows to front (south) elevation single-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof having terracotta ridge tiles render copings and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins render plinth course. Square headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with shared concrete sills. Camber-headed window opening to breakfront, first floor having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and concrete sill. Paired square-headed openings to breakfront, ground floor, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and shared concrete sill. Square-headed opening to east elevation having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window and concrete sill. Square-headed opening to breakfront, east elevation, with glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east having single-leaf cast-iron gate. Sweeping rendered walls terminating in second pair of piers. Rendered boundary walls to site. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to west with single-leaf cast-iron gate and recent concrete finials.

Originally known as Bawntard House, this house was built adjacent to buildings which are evident on the 1844 first edition OS for Limerick County. This house is a good example of a house, which has undergone extensive alterations during the nineteenth century. Victorian features include the full-height canted bay windows and gabled breakfront. They underline the original symmetry of the house. The render details, such as the quoins, also articulate the house's form.