What is recorded here
Talbotsinch House in Talbotsinch has a glass porch pushed out ahead of its front door. A fine place to be visibly at home while deciding whether you’re at home to whoever’s coming up the path.
Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1925, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced glazed porch, single-bay two-storey advanced flanking bay to right, single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey projecting lower end bay to left, and five-bay two-storey Garden (south) Front. Hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to porch with iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to first floor Garden (south) Front) with concrete sills, and timber casement windows (having leaded stained glass panels to advanced bay). Round-headed door opening to porch in square-headed frame with glazed timber double doors, fanlight, and fixed-pane sidelights. Square-headed door opening in tripartite arrangement to Garden (south) Front with glazed double doors having sidelights, overlight, and entablature over on consoles. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.
A well-composed middle-size house exhibiting qualities suggesting the prevailing influence of the Arts-and-Crafts style favoured during the development of the nearby Talbot's Inch Village enclave (including 12308005 - 20, 26 - 37/KK-19-08-05 - 20, 26 - 37). Presenting an early aspect the house makes a positive contribution to the scenic value of the locality.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12401908
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kenraiz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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