What is recorded here

Detached four-bay two-storey flat-roofed house, built 1939; extant 1939, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey projecting end bay. Extended, 2000-1, producing present composition. Flat roof behind parapet with concealed rainwater goods. Rendered walls with concrete coping to parapet. Square-headed door opening approached by two steps with concealed dressings framing "porthole" timber door. Grouped square-headed window openings (north) or square-headed window openings (south) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered octagonal piers to perimeter having polygonal capping supporting iron double gates.

A house erected for Arthur J. Thornton (Thom's Directory of Ireland 1939, 1656) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one showing the development of Knocksinna as a so-called "International Style suburb" (cf. 60230066; 60230068 - 60230073), confirmed by such attributes as the angular "cubist" plan form; the film strip-like grouped openings on each floor; and the parapeted flat roofline.

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