Coolamber Manor

Detached two-storey single-bay former outbuilding or house associated with Coolamber Manor (13401520), built c. 1830, now in disuse. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and projecting cut stone eaves course. Coursed roughly dressed limestone masonry walls with flush dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, flush dressed limestone surrounds and remains of timber sliding sash fittings. Square-headed door opening to northwest elevation with dressed limestone surround having timber panelled door. Located to the northwest of Coolamber Manor (13401520) and adjacent to former walled garden and curvilinear glasshouse (13401528).

This former outbuilding/house forms part of an extensive collection of structures associated with Coolamber Manor (13501520). Although now out of use, it retains much of its early form and character. It is constructed using good quality limestone masonry, and has dressed limestone detailing to the openings and a cut stone eaves course. Its detailing and construction compliments that found to the main complex of outbuildings (13401521) associated with Coolamber Manor adjacent to the southwest. The location of this building adjacent to the former walled garden complex (13401528), and the presence of a chimneystack, suggests that it may have been in originally in use as a gardener’s house, although the scarcity of window openings hints that it was not in regular domestic use (the blank back wall suggests that it may have been a gate house serving a rear entrance to Coolamber. This building forms part of an extensive group of related structures, which together provide an interesting historical insight into the extensive resources required to run and maintain a large country estate in Ireland during the nineteenth century.