Hatley

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1909, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey gabled flush end bays centred on single-bay single-storey projecting open porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof with pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered battered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cornice capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered gritdashed roughcast walls ion rendered dwarf plinth with rusticated rendered flush quoins to corners; terracotta tile surface finish (gables). Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed central window openings in tripartite arrangement with carved timber sills, timber mullions, and timber surrounds with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in quadripartite arrangement (end bays) with carved timber sills, timber mullions, and timber surrounds with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed central window openings (north) with carved timber sills, and timber surrounds with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in quadripartite arrangement (end bays) with carved timber sills, timber mullions, and timber surrounds with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with looped wrought iron railings to perimeter.

A house representing an important component of the early twentieth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one showing the development of the so-called "Royal Exchange Estate" as 'a picturesque garden city [with] houses of the new type…designed by architects and well designed too' (The Irish Builder and Engineer 4th February 1911, 80; cf. 60230019; 60230038; 60230041; 60260177; 60260193; 60260198; 60260199; 60260227; 60260230), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a pillared porch; the diminishing in scale of the multipartite openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof. 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 restrained interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with Hugh Stewart (1840-1909), 'Retired Captain His Majesty's 22nd Regiment late of Hatley Foxrock County Dublin' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1909, 556).