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The Old Rectory in Maryborough

Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
The Old Rectory in Maryborough
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Originally rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house; recorded by the architectural inventory as office
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Attached three-bay two-storey over raised basement former rectory, built c. 1840, now in use as offices. Gable ended slate roof with four tall, rendered stacks on gable ends and each side of entrance hall, uPVC gutters and downpipes. Roughcast walls to front and side and smooth rendered plinth to south gable.…

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Attached three-bay two-storey over raised basement former rectory, built c. 1840, now in use as offices. Gable ended slate roof with four tall, rendered stacks on gable ends and each side of entrance hall, uPVC gutters and downpipes. Roughcast walls to front and side and smooth rendered plinth to south gable. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered surrounds, ground floor bay window c. 1900 on raised plinth to side elevation, elliptical arch to door with Tuscan order doorcase and timber radial fanlight. uPVC windows to front, one-over-one timber sash windows with convex horns to bay window, six-panelled front door. Flight of limestone steps with hammer-dressed threads and wrought-iron hand railings. Set back from street with garden fronted by wrought-and cast-iron railings on low hammer-dressed limestone plinth course. Tall square piers of hammer-dressed limestone blocks to side entrance with cast-iron gates provide access to rear.
This tall end-of-terrace former rectory on Coote Street, set back further than its neighbours,and on a high basement is a significant architectural landmark on this major approach road into Portlaoise. Its size and the Tuscan order doorcase raised high over street level adds considerable formality to the front elevation. Its character is similar in a grander scale, to the smaller neighbouring pair of houses extending northwards along Coote Street.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12504225

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