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Calverstown Cottage

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Calverstown Cottage
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Detached three-bay single-storey Gothic-style house with half-dormer attic, c.1910, comprising two-bay single-storey range with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to right and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay with half-dormer attic to left. Renovated and extended, c.1990, comprising…

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Detached three-bay single-storey Gothic-style house with half-dormer attic, c.1910, comprising two-bay single-storey range with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to right and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay with half-dormer attic to left. Renovated and extended, c.1990, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to west. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to porch; lean-to to return) behind parapet walls to gables. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Cut-stone coping to gables. Square rooflights, c.1990. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1990. Roughcast walls. Rendered dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered block-and-start surrounds. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns to front. Rubble stone boundary wall to boundary.
This house is a fine, modest-scale building that is provided with much ornamentation through the application of Gothic-style motifs - the gables, for example, give a rhythmic quality to the skyline and serve to identify the house in the landscape. A variety of materials are juxtaposed in the construction of the building that also adds to its decorative effect. Prominently located in the centre of the village of Calverstown the appearance of the house has influenced the design of later modern buildings that are located nearby.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11903209

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