Poulacurry House, country house in County Cork

What is recorded here

Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c.1800. Recess two-storey block attached to side. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed door opening approached by flight of steps. Square-headed window openings. Related outbuildings to site. Entrance gates, built c.1800, comprising smooth-rendered walls with saddleback coping and raised plinth, square-profile rendered piers with moulded caps and ball finials and wrought-iron gate. L-plan single-storey gate lodge abuts wall at northern end with pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks and smooth-rendered walls.

A fine classically proportioned house, that is an excellent example of architectural fashion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The entrance is an eye-catching roadside addition. It is a fine example of an unassuming Georgian gateway, displaying simple detailing in the ball finials and coping, while the incorporation of the gate lodge is also noteworthy.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20860005

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