Rathurles House, country house in County Tipperary

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Detached six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1800, with three-bay gable elevations. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to upper storeys, roughly dressed limestone walls, moulded limestone eaves course, basement string course and having round-headed alcoves to gables. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, timber casement to ground, and replacement timber with brick voussoirs to basement, all with cut-stone sills. Inserted early eighteenth-century carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase, flanked by sidelights with replacement windows and having replacement glazed timber door with lintel and cobweb fanlight above, surmounted by open-bed pediment supported on consoles. Flight of limestone steps leading to door. Ruins of earlier castle to site.

The form and scale of this house are enhanced by the retention of features such as timber sash and casement windows and roof slates. The diminishing windows and well-carved Gibbsian doorway are typical of Georgian-style architecture.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22402107

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