What is recorded here
Belvedere House in Knocklong East has a doorway so grand that coming home with a pint of milk feels like returning from the conquest of Greece. You'd hold it aloft on the step. Someone inside would shout that you'd forgotten the bread.
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1930, having bay windows to front (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation with render quoins and roughly dressed limestone walls north, south and rear elevations. Square-headed openings having concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to north elevation with concrete sills, brick block-and-start surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening with render surround comprising Doric style pilasters supporting entablature and cornice over replacement uPVC door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to west with ornate caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate. Rendered boundary walls having render copings to site.
A handsome, modest house of simple and balanced proportions, is distinguished by the ornate render to the entrance and limestone walls with brick dressings. The house forms part of a group of contemporary structures in Knocklong, which contribute significantly to the character of the locality and may have been built in association with the nearby former Maypole Creamery and Knocklong Condensed Milk Factory.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21814016
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