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Ferrypoint House
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Detached four-bay two-storey house, extant 1884, on a rectangular plan abutting single-bay two-storey turret on an octagonal plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards (east) on timber purlins with…

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Detached four-bay two-storey house, extant 1884, on a rectangular plan abutting single-bay two-storey turret on an octagonal plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards (east) on timber purlins with replacement timber bargeboards (west) on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered with cast-iron downpipes. Replacement rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends. Segmental-headed door opening with step threshold, and concealed dressings with rendered hood moulding centred on keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Paired pointed segmental-headed window openings (ground floor) with sills, rendered panelled pilasters on "Cavetto" corbels with hood mouldings framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Pointed segmental-headed window openings (first floor) with sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation centred on square-headed window opening (half-landing) with sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows centred on four-over-four timber sash window. Road fronted on a corner site.
A house erected by Patrick O'Gorman (----) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition, one abutting a polygonal turret originally acting as an eye-catcher in the foreground of Prospect Hall (see 22904003), suggested by such attributes as rectilinear plan form; the diminishing in scale of the "pointed" openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roof.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22904004

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