What is recorded here
Riverside in Kill West shares a low roof with its cottage neighbour, but its back extension rises above it. There’s sibling rivalry for you: agree to stay the same height, then sneak round the back and grow another forehead.
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey cottage, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to left. Renovated and extended, c.1995, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed higher return to rear to south-west. One of a pair. Hipped (shared to south-east) roof with slate (lean-to to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to return. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Painted (unpainted to return). Square-headed openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Replacement glazed uPVC door, c.1995. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel drive to front.
This building is a good example of a modest-scale labourer’s cottage that is imbued with a quasi-vernacular quality. Although renovated and extended in the late twentieth century, leading to the loss of many of the original materials, the original form of the cottage is still discernible. The cottage is one of a pair (including 11815007/KD-19-15-07) and is of some social significance, representing an example of the smaller-scale buildings that constitute part of the architectural heritage of the village of Kill.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11815006
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