Scart House, County Kerry | Discover Alone

What is recorded here

Scart House in Scart makes you climb steps to a front door tucked between two jutting wings. It's the house equivalent of arriving late to dinner: there's a seat for you, certainly, but first you must pass both aunts.

Detached H-plan three-bay single-storey over raised basement house with dormer attic, built 1823. Comprising single-bay single-storey recessed entrance bay to centre with elliptical-headed door opening approached by flight of steps, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays and pair of single-bay single-storey returns to rear to north-east. Undergoing extensive renovation in 1998. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls having battered base to some walls. Limestone sills and timber lintels, several replaced in concrete, to timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Semi-elliptical red brick arched doorway with timber doorcase, panelled door, spoked fanlight and sliding sash sidelights. Retaining interior features. Set within own grounds.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21310701

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