Scratham View, house in County Kildare

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1850, retaining early aspect with round-headed door opening to centre and three-bay single-storey lean-to parallel range to rear to west. Extended, c.1870, comprising three-bay single-storey wing with half dormer attic to north possibly originally outbuilding. Gable-ended roof with slate (gable-ended to wing). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights, c.1990, to wing (on west pitch). Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to to parallel range. Corrugated-iron. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 3/6 and 6/6 timber sash windows. 2/2 timber sash windows to wing. Round-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with keystone. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1900. Spoked fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Hedge boundary to front. Detached single-bay two-storey gable-fronted rubble stone outbuilding, c.1850, with door opening to first floor approached by flight of steps and two-bay two-storey side elevations to north and to south. Gable-ended roof (gable-fronted) with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rubble stone walls. Cut-stone quoins. Square-headed openings. No sills. Cut-stone lintels. Door opening to first floor approached by flight of cut-stone steps. Timber fittings.

Scratham View is a fine and well-maintained Classically-proportioned middle sized house retaining much of its original character, features and materials. The house is unusual in Moone for being set back from the line of the road where most other houses in the area are road fronted. Important surviving original features include early fenestration, a simple rusticated doorcase and a slate roof. The rubble stone outbuilding to rear contributes attractively to the architectural group and retains cut-stone lintels to the openings - its rustic quality is a good foil to the sophisticated nature of the main house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11903609

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