Kilgobbin

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall (ground floor); roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to side elevations with roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening into house with glazed terracotta tiled threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters on padstones supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with cut-granite octagonal piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting flat-iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary late Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase not only demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also showing a simplified "peacock tail" fanlight; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.