Cúl na Gréine, house in County Kilkenny

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Detached four-bay single-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house with dormer attic, built 1903, with single-bay full-height gabled advanced bay having engaged canted bay window to ground floor. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to dormer attic window) with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stacks, timber bargeboards having profiled detailing, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (including to engaged canted bay window in square-headed recess) with painted shallow sills, lintels, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining some fixed-pane timber windows throughout having leaded glazing. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

Representing an element of a planned village built for Ellen Odette Desart (née Bischoffsheim), fourth Countess of Desart (1857-1933) to designs prepared in a characteristic Arts-and-Crafts style by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) a well-composed middle-size house retains most of the original composition attributes together with much of the early fabric: however, the inappropriate replacement fittings to the openings have not had a positive impact on the external expression of the composition.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12308037

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