The Cottage in Killucan

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Detached two-bay single-storey with attic level house, built c.1860. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and a central ruled-and-line rendered chimneystack having buff clay pots over. Rubble limestone walls with squared dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with brick dressings and timber sash windows. Central square-headed doorcase to the main elevation (northeast) having brick dressings and a modern timber sheeted door. Set back from road, at a right-angle to the road alignment, to the northeast end of Killucan. Rubble limestone boundary runs from the east gable end of house to road boundary. Complex of single-storey rubble limestone outbuildings, having dressed quoins to the corners and brick dressings to the openings, located to the northeast of house.

An attractive house of mid-to-late nineteenth-century appearance, which retains much of its early form and character. Although altered, this building makes a positive contribution to the streetscape of Killucan. This building has the appearance of a late nineteenth-century local authority house, however, it may be an earlier estate cottage. A change in the stonework just below eaves level suggests that the roof was raised at some stage. The form of this building suggests that there was originally a window opening to the west side of the central doorcase on the main façade (northeast). The rubble limestone boundary wall and the complex of rubble limestone outbuildings to the northeast add to this composition and complete the setting.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15312005

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