Friarstown House, country house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Friarstown House in Friarstown cost £10, 000 in 1827, and its ornate fanlight makes even the space above the front door look expensive. You’d raise your hand to knock, reconsider your coat, and decide the news could wait.

Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built in 1827, with four-bay two-storey addition to rear (south). Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Hipped roof to rear addition. Rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone surrounds and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear addition with timber framed windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber doorcase having pilasters flanking door and sidelights and supporting cast-iron ornate fanlight. Timber panelled door, approached by three diminishing tooled limestone steps. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to rear addition.

This classically proportioned house retains much of its original charm and character. It was built by David Urqhart Hunt and cost £10,000. The retention of original features such as the timber sliding sash windows, adds further interest while the building is enlivened and enriched by the doorcase and ornate elliptical fanlight.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901345

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