Waterpark House, country house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Waterpark House in Shanid Lower gives its front door carved pillars, ornate sidelights and a great spoked fanlight. You'd arrive to borrow a shovel and find yourself announcing that you sought an audience with the Keeper of the Spades.

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and limestone eaves course. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and internal timber shutters. Elliptical-headed opening having spoked fanlight over double-leaf timber panelled doors with sidelights having flanking timber Doric style pilasters. Gable-fronted outbuilding to west with pitched slate roof and snecked limestone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having dressed limestone voussoirs. Pair of chamfered limestone piers to south.

Waterpark House is distinctive for its finely carved timber doorcase, which retains its spoked fanlight and ornate sidelights. The house maintains much of its original character, despite its condition, as well as features such as the slate roof and sash windows. The fine outbuilding and limestone piers adds context to the site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901901

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dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Roger McLachlan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0