What is recorded here
Detached five-bay single-storey former rectory with gabled end-bays, built c.1830, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and carved timber bargeboards. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows with small panes, set in pairs and fours. Outbuildings to site. Rubble stone boundary walls and gate piers with pair of wrought-iron gates.
Built by Lord Carbery of Castle Freke as the rectory for Rathbarry Church of Ireland church on his estate, this building forms part of a significant group of relates structures. In common with the other houses built by the Carberys on the estate, this well-designed building was executed in the fashionable architectural style of the time, in high quality materials.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20914320
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wsiegmund, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Caitlin Ferguson-Mir, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Owen O'Sullivan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Warren Buckley, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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