House in Caltragh More

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, having full-height canted bays to either end of the front elevation (northwest). Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings and two central rendered chimneystacks. Pitched roof to centre of rear elevation (southeast) having terracotta ridge crestings. Chamfered corners to ends of slates. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered quoins to ground floor; and rendered eaves course to canted bays with blocking course over and rendered string courses between floors. Square-headed openings having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to canted end-bays, tripartite window to centre-bay, first floor, having one-over-one timber sliding sash central window with flanking one-over-one pane coloured glass windows, all with painted limestone sills and having lined-and-ruled voussoirs effect over. Central square-headed opening with glazed overlights and sidelights flanking timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Newtown-Cashel. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the northwest. Pedestrian gateway to the northwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered caps and single leaf replacement timber gate.

This well-proportioned house retains its early form and character. The canted end bays add rhythm to an otherwise regular front façade, while the rendered detailing creates visual appeal. The symmetrical arrangement with a central doorway and the canted bay windows are typical features of the date of construction. The house retains much of its early fabric including a timber panelled door and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows, which are typical of houses of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This building is of a type that is relatively common in the suburbs of the larger Irish cities and towns but is rare in the rural Irish countryside. The terracotta ridge tiles help create an interesting roofline that interest to the rural landscape to the north of the village of Newtown-Cashel.