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Woodlands in Limerick Municipal Borough

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Woodlands in Limerick wears a patch of pretend timber framing between two big projecting bays. A grand brick house dressing as a country cottage: the architectural equivalent of a gentleman buying a pitchfork and asking which end takes the horse.
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built 1901, with a pair of two-storey three-sided canted bays, an entrance porch and a central gable. Hipped terracotta tiled roof with terracotta finials and three red brick chimneystacks, gabled to the return. Cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with modillions and stringcourse below. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with a soldier quoin detail to the corners, with a strutwork finish to the first floor between to canted bays only. Square-headed window openings with gauged terracotta lintels having decorative terracotta keystones to the canted bays only, with single-pane timber sash windows and architrave surrounds on continuous limestone sill courses. To the central gable is a bipartite window opening with single-pane timber sash windows and a tiled canopy above supported on timber sprockets and limestone corbels. To the rear is a square-plan flat-roofed section, possibly containing the stairwell with a large brick round-arched window opening with a uPVC window. All other window openings being gauged brick flat-arched with single-pane timber sash windows and some uPVC replacements. Timber-framed porch on a low brick wall with a limestone plinth and steps. Within the porch is a square-headed door opening with a flat-panelled timber door flanked by a pair of single-pane timber sash windows and an overlight above. A modern single-storey extension attached to the south built c. 2000. A gravel drive leads through a landscaped site with modern red brick piers and a further pedestrian entrance with stone pediment and a tongued and grooved timber door.
A substantial Edwardian style house with a pair of distinctive bays. This house has a much embellished façade which is still in good condition. The use of many materials in addition to the large landscaped site make this house a good example of a well-to-do suburban house from the end of the nineteenth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21501003

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • David Hawgood, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Shinners, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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