House on Alexandra Villas, Cork

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Terrace of four two-bay three-storey houses, built c.1880, with canted bay windows to front (south) elevations. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped leaded roof to canted bay window. Smooth rendered walls, one house with painted render with continuous sill courses to first and second floors. Camber-headed window openings with one-over-one sliding timber sash windows to one house. Some houses with uPVC windows. Round-headed door openings in smooth render surrounds with replacement timber-and-glazed doors. Set back from street with rendered boundary walls and cast-iron pedestrian gates to rendered square-profile piers. Steps lead from gates to front doors. Set on elevated south facing site.

Named in honour of the wife of the reigning king, Edward VII, Alexandra Terrace is thought to have been constructed to accommodate officers from the nearby Victoria Barracks. Restrained in appearance, the moulded render details, canted bay windows and fine cast-iron gates are the only embellishments of this well proportioned terrace. Sited on a height overlooking the city to the front, and Barrackton, the houses of the enlisted men, to the rear, Alexandra Terrace is an interesting reminder of the lasting influence of the barracks on the urban landscape in this part of the city.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20863052

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