Killilagh

Semi-detached two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1910, facing west with a three-sided two-storey canted bay window, and a two-storey return built against neighbouring return. Single-storey extension to rear. Gabled natural slate roof with three-sided slate hip over bay window, terracotta ridge tiles, and a wrought-iron finial to apex of bay roof. Hipped return roof. Red brick chimneystack to apex of gable, having vitrified brick stringcourse, and red brick chimneystack to return. Cast-iron gutter on moulded red brick eaves, and cast-iron downpipe. Red brick faced front elevation laid in Flemish bond, with moulded red brick plinth course, and moulded vitrified brick stringcourse delineating first floor level, window arch levels and at eaves course level. Smooth rendered side and rear elevation with red brick quoining to northeast corner. Flat-arched window openings to front elevation with red brick flat arches, having rounded stop-chamfer red brick reveals and canted lined sills surrounding uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with rendered reveals, sills and uPVC windows. Slate lean-to porch roof supported on elaborate bracketed timber uprights with stop-chamfer detailing, shared with neighbouring house, gives access to front door. Glazed panelling and cast-iron balustrade panel joins timber shafts. Tiled porch platform. Segmental-arched front door opening, with red brick arch and reveals, and flush timber doorframe, flat-panelled timber door with glazed upper panels and brass door furniture, glazed overlight. Wrought-iron cresting to porch roof. Front site enclosed by rendered wall with cast-iron railings. Red brick piers with chamfered reveals and limestone capping from which replica steel gates gives access to the rear site.

This house forms one component of a row of similarly scaled semi-detached houses, built in the first half of the twentieth century. It adheres to a building tradition that is typical of modestly-scaled suburban house design of the period. The replacement of the original windows, though reversible, has a negative effect on the character of the house.