Hotel in Bowersacre

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Terraced three-bay two-storey inn, c.1750, with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting lower entrance bay to centre. Renovated, c.1950, with openings to ground floor remodelled. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (gabled to entrance bay) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, rendered bargeboards to gable to porch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (remodelled to ground floor, c.1950) with cut-stone sills, and three-over-six timber sash windows to first floor (six-over-six timber sash window to entrance bay) having replacement fixed-pane (two-light) timber windows, c.1950, to remodelled openings with iron sill guards. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Road fronted.

A well-appointed middle-size mid eighteenth-century inn exhibiting early origins on account of distinctive characteristics including the grouping of the openings to the centre of the composition together with the slightly disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing. Despite alteration works to the ground floor elsewhere much of the historic character of the site survives intact. Positioned facing down the road leading in to Knocktopher from the north-west the inn represents an appealing landmark enhancing the aesthetic value of the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12321002

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