House on Beale's Hill, Cork

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Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1940, on an irregular plan with flat-roofed canopy wrapping around south and west elevations, projecting sunroom to south-east and extended by single-storey pitched roof extension to west, c.1970. Pitched pantile roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves and plastic rainwater goods to single-storey extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills, steel casement windows to first floor and timber casement windows to ground floor. Square-headed door opening to recessed porch under flat-roofed concrete canopy to east elevation with timber surround and timber door with porthole window. Set in its own grounds at end of wooded avenue.

An interesting example of a house from the 1940s, reputedly constructed for Arthur Barnes, a former sea captain who became harbour master and built this house to overlook the harbour below. Retaining much of its mid-twentieth century style including the full-length canopy to the front elevation, entrance porch, and many of the original steel windows, it is an interesting example of contemporary domestic architecture.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20863120

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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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