Sapperton House

Detached five-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house with dormer attic, c.1740, on a T-shaped plan retaining most original fenestration with three-bay two-storey lower return to north. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Hipped slate roofs on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack on axis with main ridge, square rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone moulded eaves. Unpainted lime rendered walls (possibly over red brick construction) with cut-stone moulded band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and painted rendered surrounds to return having ‘keystones’. 6/6 and 9/6 timber sash windows with some replacement timber casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of nine cut-limestone steps having unpainted rendered parapets, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having cornice and pediment over, timber panelled double doors, and fixed-pane timber windows to flanking lights. Square-headed door opening to return approach by flight of steps having balustraded parapet with painted rendered surround having ‘keystone’, glazed timber panelled door, sidelights, and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.

A well-appointed substantial house that forms an important element of the mid eighteenth-century architectural heritage of County Waterford. Composed of Classically-derived proportions on a symmetrical plan, the clean lines of the composition are uninterrupted by extraneous ornamentation, with a fine, reserved cut-stone doorcase providing a focal point in the primary (south) front. Well maintained, the house retains most of its original form and fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior.