Tara House, rectory in County Dublin

What is recorded here

Tara House in Glebe South gives its old rectory door a fanlight and a narrow side window: ample daylight, plus a discreet view of whoever’s knocking. ‘The rector is out.’ ‘His eye isn’t.’

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, built 1830, with projecting entrance porch. Single-bay two-storey extension to rear, c.1990. Two-storey rubble stone coach house to rear.ROOF: Hipped concrete asbestos tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and limestone chimney stack with terracotta pots. WALLS: Cement rendered with quoins; limestone plinth course and ruled and limed basement; nap rendered porch with flanking pilasters and moulded cornice.OPENINGS: Square headed; round headed stairhall windows and tri-partite and windows with cement rendered reveals; limestone cills; 6/6 and 3/3 timber sash windows; roundheaded door openings with rendered reveals and timber panelled door with fanlight having narrow round headed sidelight to side elevation of entrance porch

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11309004

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