The Cottage in Ballinveala, house in County Limerick

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Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1860, with abutting ranges of outbuildings to north arranged around a courtyard. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and timber eaves brackets and red brick chimneystacks. Dressed limestone walls with cut and tooled quoins. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed opening with red brick voussoirs and timber panelled door flanked by carved pilasters with console brackets with spoked fanlight above. Ranges of converted outbuildings with pitched artificial slate roofs and dressed limestone walls. Square-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and uPVC windows and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening with red brick voussoirs and surround, timber panelled door with glazed sidelights and spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to north range. Square-profile rock-faced rusticated limestone piers to front of site with cast-iron gates.

Although only single-storey in height, the simple design of this house is typical of medium sized country houses in Ireland. The modest house displays elements of symmetry displayed in its façade and enlivened by elements such as the overhanging eaves and the central chimneystacks. The textural contrast provided by the limestone and brick adds further interest to the site. Set within its own grounds, it forms a pleasing group with its outbuildings and entrance gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902207

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