Dingle House

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1899, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having ivy-covered shallow pyramidal capping.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the prevailing late Georgian fashion, confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase, albeit one partly concealed behind a later porch; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse having historic connections with the Buckley family including Benjamin Buckley (d. 1899) and Susan Buckley (née Walsh) (d. 1907), 'late of Dingle House Kilternan County Dublin' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1909, 50); and the Russell family including George Alexander Russell (d. 1956) '[of] Dingle house Kilternan' (Thom's Official Directory 1928, 1682).