House in Parknahyla, County Cork

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Detached four-bay single-storey house with attic accommodation, built c. 1820. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, having timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front elevation, one-over-one pane to rear elevation and south gable. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door. Rubble stone garden wall and square-profile piers to front boundary of house site. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic accommodation to rear of site with pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Rendered walls and square-profile piers to vehicular entrance to rear of site, having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

Interesting small structure with neatly designed and executed form. Small openings in front elevation creating pleasing mass to void ratio. Enhanced by retention of timber sash windows and timber door. Enhanced and contextualised by outbuildings to site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20907734

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