Outbuilding in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Outbuilding in Castlecomer has a respectable painted front and bare rubble round the back, the building equivalent of arriving at court in a borrowed suit, then having your cousin stand up to give evidence.

Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1875. Extensively renovated, c.1950. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick eaves. Painted replacement roughcast walls, c.1950, over random rubble stone construction with exposed random rubble stone construction to rear (north) elevation having remains of unpainted lime render over. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Set in shared grounds perpendicular to road overlooking tributary of Dinin (Deen) River.

A modest-scale utilitarian building of informal, almost rustic appearance forming an appealing feature in the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12301068

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