West Winds, house in County Dublin

What is recorded here

West Winds in Cooldrinagh was built for spa guests, with a grand entrance shared with the neighbours. You came to the country for your health and met another invalid on the doorstep. ‘How are you?’ There went the morning.

Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1790, with entrance in shared breakfront. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with smooth rendered base course. Replacement timber sash windows. Timber panelled door with carved timber surround and radial fanlight. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Simple iron railings to front.

This house, though partly refurbished, retains much original fabric and its elegant proportions. It is an integral element of this terrace of houses which shows typical Georgian features, such as a uniformity of proportion softened by varying individual details, though the group is curiously urban for such a formerly rural situation. Originally built to house guests of the local spa, it represents an important element of the social heritage of the Lucan area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11204004

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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