House in Tubbrid, County Tipperary (22208702)

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Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1780, with advanced central two-bay breakfront, three-bay side elevations and with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls to first floor with painted rubble walls to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, those of ground floor of façade set into segmental-arched recesses, with replacement uPVC windows and having double timber sliding sash four-over-six pane windows to first floor of end bays and some to rear and side elevations and double one-over-one pane and round-headed twelve-over-twelve pane to rear, all having tooled limestone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door flanked having panelled timber pilasters with cobweb fanlight above, render knees, and flanked by sidelights. Segmental-arch entranceway to rear yard of rubble sandstone construction with roughly-dressed sandstone voussoirs, cut sandstone string course and pediment and having rubble sandstone bellcote. Two-storey outbuilding to yard with limewashed walls and corrugated-iron barrel roof. Curved-plan entrance gateway with wrought-iron gates and railings with roughcast rendered wall and gate piers with limestone capping stones to front of site.

While the form of this house is not atypical of the small country house or gentleman farmer's residence, its setting is that of the working farm. The low garden wall separating it from the farmyard, and the siting of the house with its front elevation rather than the rear facing the yard, is more typical of the functional unpretentiousness of vernacular architecture in South Tipperary. The larger panes to the ground floor windows may be later replacements, or they may be evidence of the higher status accorded to the ground floor. Visible from the road, it brings architectural interest to a sparsely settled area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22208702

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