Thistle House, County Louth

What is recorded here

Thistle House in Plaster started with five windows across and stretched to seven. It has the look of a family photograph taken just as two late uncles squeeze in at one end, insisting nobody will notice.

Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1760, formerly five-bay, extended by two-bays to west. Formerly T-plan, returns and extension to north and east elevations, gable-fronted porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, terracotta pots, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling to south and west elevations, painted smooth rendered walling to north; round-headed blind recess to east of north elevation. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening, timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight, set within pitched roof porch. House set in own grounds, outbuildings and modern corrugated farm buildings to north, gateway to south-east, painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined quadrant walls, square-profile piers, wrought-iron gates.

Thistle House has retained its original mid-eighteenth century composition and balanced proportion . Some notable features remain such as the original finely tooled limestone window sills and gateway with simple wrought-iron gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13900411

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