Sion House, County Dublin | Discover Alone

What is recorded here

Sion House in Rush puts metal guards on its downstairs window sills but gives the draught little grilles of its own at ground level. That’s Irish hospitality: the cold gets a private entrance while everyone else wipes their feet.

End of terrace three-bay two-storey house, c.1845, with projecting entrance porch. Two-storey extension to rear.ROOF: M - profile; slate terracotta pots & roof ridge tiles; rendered chimney stack; uPVC rainwater goods. WALLS: Nap renderd walls; lined and ruled rendered quoins; rendered plinth course with metal ventilation grilles; rendered cornice to porch. OPENINGS: Square headed windows; rendered and chamfered soffits and reveals; painted granite cills; timber panelled door; glass overlight, chamfered door surround contained in projecting flat roofed nap rendered porch with cornice; metal cill guards to ground floor ground floor; 2/2 timber sash windows; timber top hung casement to rear extension.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11324010

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