Kingston Grove

Detached four-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. For sale, 2010. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having "Cavetto"-detailed stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed off-central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and bull nose-detailed rendered surrounds framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Dublin. 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 forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjacent Lonsdale (see 60260043) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.