Lonsdale

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1909, on a rectangular plan. Renovated and extended, 2003. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Replacement rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting lead-covered cornice on "Acanthus"-detailed fluted consoles, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two 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 with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on the remnants of a Classically-detailed doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; 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 forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjacent Kingston Grove (see 60260044) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.