house

Detached five-bay single-storey house with yard, built c. 1820, of lobby-entry plan, having windbreak to front and single-bay single-storey extension with pitched corrugated-iron roof to east elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roof having low rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth course and eaves course. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and render surrounds. Square-headed timber battened door to flat-roofed windbreak. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble sandstone walls with rendered plinth course, segmental-headed openings with roughly dressed voussoirs having barred replacement timber and glazed windows flanking segmental-headed carriage arch with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs and steel doors. Garden and yard to front of house. Painted rendered square-profile piers with carved caps having double leaf cast-iron gates and rendered boundary walls.

This house and yard is typical of the vernacular architecture of South Tipperary. The outbuildings are symmetrically arranged around a small courtyard and are typically smaller in size and less ornate than the main house. The house retains much of its original form and structure which is enhanced by the render detailing to the plinth and eaves courses. The windbreak adds interest to the façade and is a typical feature of such houses. The roof is clad in corrugated-iron, which replaced thatch as a vernacular material. The site is bounded by rendered walls which contribute to the setting of the house.