The Old Rectory in Newchapel, County Tipperary

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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built 1790-2, having attic storey, lateral roughly dressed limestone steps to perron at ground floor, two-bay two-storey lean-to return and glazed porch to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with rendered gable end chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with painted smooth rendered basement. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in size, with timber sliding sash three-over-three pane windows to first floor and six-over-six pane windows to ground floor, all having tooled cut limestone sills. Round-headed doorway with cobweb fanlight and timber panelled door. Shutters to interior of windows. Yard of outbuildings to rear, entered through double-leaf wrought-iron gates and having single- and two-storey outbuildings. Pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Two-storey building has timber battened doors with paned overlights, timber casement windows to ground floor and timber louvered windows to first floor.

Built with a gift of £100 from the Board of First Fruits circa 1790, this former rectory exhibits fine features typical of the neo-Classical style fashionable at this time. These include a small limestone perron stairway to the front door, diminishing timber sash windows and a delicate cobweb fanlight, all of which combine to add grandeur to an otherwise modest building.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22207609

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