House in Lyre, County Cork

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, now disused. Lean-to outbuilding attached to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered red brick and rubble stone chimneystacks. Lime-washed roughcast rendered walls with plinth. Rubble stone walls to outbuilding. Camber-headed openings having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, red brick block-and-start surrounds (first floor) and red brick arches (ground floor) with concrete sills. Camber-headed door opening with red brick arch, limestone and concrete step and replacement door and overlight.

The plan, scale and form of this house are typical of the work of the Congested District Board, which was established in the latter part of the nineteenth century to improve housing conditions. The Board continued its work into the first decades of the twentieth century, at which time it was absorbed into the Land Commission. The red brick dressing lend a slightly urban character to the building, which in form adheres to the traditional farmhouse.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20911601

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