Curraghmount House

Detached seven-bay two-storey house, comprising central five-bay block, built c.1780, and advanced end bays with three-bay sides and with box-bay windows to front, and flat-roof porch to main block, all added c. 1860. Slate roof, pitched to central block and hipped to advanced bays and box-bay windows, with painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with decorative render bracket course. Round-headed windows to central block, having one-over-one pame timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed windows to side elevations and box-bay windows of later additions and porch, having mainly paired six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor of façade of end bays having uPVC windows. Camber-headed openings to flat roofed porch. Entrance gates of c. 1820 to south, comprising angled coursed snecked limestone ashlar walls terminating in square-plan limestone ashlar piers having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

This substantial early nineteenth-century house is pleasantly located in landscaped grounds. The classically proportioned elevations are enlivened by decorative render bracket course and dramatic Wyatt windows. The house retains numerous interesting historical features such as various types of timber sliding sash windows and tall, rendered chimneystacks. The building was the home of Cork City MP Alexander McCarthy (1803-1868). Like many houses in the area, it was later used to house a member of the militia stationed at Buttevant. The angled entrance gates form an appropriate introduction to the house, the stonework and cast-iron gates exhibiting features of skilled craftsmanship.