House in Lowertown, County Cork

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, with altered double-height block to north-west. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Pointed arch opening to south-east elevation with replacement timber fixed pane window and concrete sill. Round-headed opening to double-height block with timer fixed pane window and concrete sill. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door. Rubble stone outbuilding to rear (south-west).

This pleasing roadside structure is an elaboration of the earlier basic vernacular style, as seen in the direct-entry plan and the asymmetrically placed openings. The elongation of the house, evident in the later block to the north-east, is typical of buildings of this type.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20914806

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