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Hill House in Kilmannock

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Hill House in Kilmannock
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Detached seven-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1920, on a rectangular plan originally two separate three-bay two-storey houses centred on single-bay two-storey "bas-relief" breakfront. Sold, 1991. Hipped slate roofs with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta…

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Detached seven-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1920, on a rectangular plan originally two separate three-bay two-storey houses centred on single-bay two-storey "bas-relief" breakfront. Sold, 1991. Hipped slate roofs with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves (south) or cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (north) retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls; creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish (breakfront) with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice. Paired lancet blind openings (breakfront) with slate sills, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing rendered infill. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite or concrete sills, and concealed dressings with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed hood mouldings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds.
A farmhouse erected by James O'Neill (----; Rowe and Sallan 2004, 539) representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one repurposing two houses previously occupied by employees or tenants of the Kilmannock House estate, suggested by such attributes as the elongated rectilinear footprint centred on a polygonal dome-topped bridging breakfront; the feint battered silhouette; 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 or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15703911

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