Smithfield House, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Smithfield House in Croagh has windows that get smaller the higher you look, as though whoever paid for it grew steadily less delighted with the bill. By the top floor, daylight was being admitted on a trial basis.

Detached five-bay three-storey house, built c. 1780, having crenellated porch to front (south) elevation and two-storey recent extensions to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings having painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to porch with glazed overlight over timber panelled door having flanking sidelights. Pair of square-profile rubble limestone piers to south and rubble limestone boundary walls with limestone cappings.

The form of this handsome Georgian house is typical of higher status homes built in the eighteenth century. The classically inspired design, enhanced by the diminishing windows emphasises the façade's vertical nature. The use of diminishing windows is a common feature of such houses in Limerick.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902035

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Enclosure in CroaghEnclosure · 626 yd