Gate lodge in Limerick Municipal Borough (21521052)

Terraced two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1900, with a full-height three-sided bay window surmounted by a gabled dormer attic storey, built as part of a uniform terrace of seven houses. Shared gabled return. Pitched gabled slate roof with intersecting gabled dormer roof. Roof lights to front and rear span. Red brick chimneystack to apex of gabled side elevation and return, each having stringcourse, dog-tooth cornice and plain clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with corbelled brick eaves course, with moulded red brick sill course doubling as frieze architrave. Dormer gable treated as a moulded rendered broken base pediment with finial to apex. Cement rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window openings, with continuous limestone lintel bands at ground and first floor level, red brick reveals, continuous limestone or moulded red brick sill courses, with replacement uPVC windows, early timber casements to attic level. Two-over-two timber sash windows and casement windows to the rear elevation. Partially glazed timber-framed entrance porch with turned plain timber vertical supports joined timber balustrade. Tiled entrance platform. Square-headed door opening, continuous limestone ashlar lintel, reveals and limestone threshold step. Plain doorframe with raised and fielded panelled timber door with stop-chamfer detailing and glazed upper panels. Plain cylinder glass overlight. Porch roof with plain timber rafters and wired glass sheeting. Front site partially enclosed by red brick faced plinth wall and panelled red brick pier both with painted capping stones supporting Art Nouveau inspired cast-iron railings. Plaque with incised lettering reads: 6 Laurel Villas.

This house is part of a uniform terrace of houses. The group composition of which is emphasised by the repetition of vertical elements, i.e., the full-height bay windows, the horizontal limestone lintel bands, first floor limestone sill course and red brick sill course at attic level. Loss of timber sash windows on the front elevation is to be lamented, as the loss has a negative effect on the character of the terrace on the whole.