officer's house

Terraced two-bay two-storey Royal Irish Constabulary officer's house, built 1913, with single-bay single-storey lean-to advanced porch to left ground floor. Now in private residential use. One of a pair forming part of a group of four houses on a U-shaped plan. Pitched (shared) artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Random rubble stone wall to ground floor with painted roughcast wall to first floor (brought forward forming lean-to to porch). Square-headed window openings in bipartite or tripartite arrangement (stepping down to central opening to ground floor) with yellow brick sills to ground floor supporting yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, timber surrounds to remainder, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road with wrought iron railings to shared forecourt having wrought iron gate.

An attractive modest-scale house possibly part-financed by the Wandesford (Wandesforde) family of nearby Castlecomer House (12301090/KK-05-01-90) to designs attributable to William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) forming part of a cohesive group intended as the domestic enclave for the local Royal Irish Constabulary. Together with the remainder in the group (including 12301042, 4 - 5/KK-05-01-42, 4 - 5) the house is distinguished in Kilkenny Street on account of the somewhat eclectic combination of features derived partly from the Arts-and-Crafts and partly from the Edwardian Free style movements. Having been very well maintained the house presents an early aspect with most of the historic fabric surviving in place, thereby contributing to the integrity of the group in the street scene.