Cushowan, house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Cushowan in Leahys gives its ground-floor windows one continuous sill. Separate little ledges would only encourage notions; this lot are sitting on the same bench until somebody admits who broke the glass.

Detached four-bay two-storey Edwardian style house, built c. 1910, with single-bay single-storey side addition and extensions to rear. Hipped and pitched slate roof with overhanding eaves and exposed brackets. Rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls on plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds. Continuous sill course to ground floor. Set back from road in its own gardens.

Cushowen House is an important house in the architecture of Limerick County. It was possibly designed by the architect William Clifford Smith and forms part of the collection of Edwardian houses built at that time in the city and the county. Its Edwardian features are enhanced by the simple window openings with overhanging roof and the continuous sill couse cum platband on the ground floor. All of these features including the grounds combine to make this house a significant building in the architectural heritage of Limerick.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901001

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