
What is recorded here
Detached nine-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having two-storey wing with lean-to and flat-roofed additions to rear (west). Currently vacant. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, having slate hanging to side (north) elevation. Camber- and square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having nine-over-six and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to single-storey rear addition to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with moulded render surround, rendered reveals and timber panelled door with fanlight to front (east) elevation, having tooled limestone stepped approach and threshold. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south, having pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and exposed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door opening to front elevation) with remains of timber frame. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Pitched slate roof with rubble stone eaves course. Exposed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with exposed timber lintels and red brick relieving arches. Located within own grounds having roughcast rendered boundary wall with rendered copings. Square-profile gate piers with rendered plinths, panels, platbands and caps having replacement cast-iron gates to west.
A curiously long, horizontally emphasised house, which was probably originally a L-plan five-bay house that was extended to meet changing domestic requirements. It retains much historic fabric of interest, including slate roof, slate hanging and timber sliding sash windows. The related outbuildings add to its context and setting.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20907363
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