Bennettsbridge House, County Kilkenny

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Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1825, with single-bay two-storey lower return to west. Refenestrated, c.1925. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Ivy-clad unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight with leaded panel. Set back from line of road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast boundary wall having rendered coping, cut-stone channelled piers, and wrought iron gate.

A well-composed middle-size house retaining the original form and massing together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric, thereby contributing significantly to the character of the locality.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12312012

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