Sunnyside House

Detached three-bay two-storey brick-built house, constructed c.1930, with two-bay side elevations and with two-storey return to south end of rear elevation. Gable-fronted box-bay projections to end bays of front elevation. Pitched fibre-cement slate roofs with rolled terracotta ridge, front gables having decoratively braced moulded timber bargeboards with pommel finials. Brick chimneystacks to middle of ridge to each side of entrance bay. Replacement metal rainwater goods on timber fascia fixed to exposed ends of timber rafters. Roughcast render to first floor of front and end elevations and to rear elevations, with exposed English garden wall bond brick, with terracotta egg-and-dart and guilloche bands between floors. Projecting brick base on partially exposed stone plinth with chamfered brick top. Square-headed window openings throughout with mostly stone sills, some concrete, and with replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-arch front doorway has replacement uPVC door, and rendered steps. Garden to front with decorative steel pedestrian gate to smooth rendered ruled and lined boundary wall with channelled square piers having pyramidal caps. Detached two-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched corrugated steel roof and roughcast rendered walls, one with single-storey lean-to addition.

This substantial uniformly arranged early twentieth-century suburban house continues the pattern of villa-type detached dwellings on several approaches to Clones which help to define the interface between the urban centre and the rural hinterland. The finely executed brickwork and decorative mouldings contribute to this building’s architectural merit.