worker's house

Terraced two-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1870, with return. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, timber bargeboards with finial to gable and cast-iron rainwater goods. Dormer roof with bargeboards and finial to northern-bay. Catslide roof to return. Pebbledashed walls with timber eaves course. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Oculus to attic. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by timber fence. Shared outhouse to rear site.

This terraced building, like its neighbours, bears some design features that suggests its significance both architecturally and socially. The elaborate style of the façades with decorative oculus, bargeboards and canopy reinforce the style of the estate architecture that is evident in Birr as this row of cottages were built as worker's cottages for Birr Castle demesne. These cottages were awarded with a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal for their design in the 1870s.