House in Skreen, County Meath

What is recorded here

House in Skreen is only one storey high, but its carved gables and pointed finials have dressed for an event requiring a carriage. Beside it stands its equally decorated twin. Neither was told the other was wearing that.

Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey houses, built c.1880, with central gabled porches. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboard to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber casement windows with red brick surrounds and concrete sills. Timber glazed doors with render panels and plaques above. Rubble limestone boundary walls with wrought-iron pedestrian gates.

The modest scale of this pair of houses is enhance by the architectural detailing which was employed in their construction. Embellishments include the carved timber bargeboard and finials, the decorative red brick window surrounds, and stone plaques. The rubble stone walls and wrought-iron gates enhance the setting of the houses.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14326003

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Patrick Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Anthony Foster, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
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