worker's house

Terraced two-bay single-storey worker's house with attic, built c.1870, and return. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, timber bargeboards with finial to dormer attic window and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with timber eaves course. Catslide roof to return. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills and oculus to attic. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door with pitched canopy with decorative timber bargeboards and finial. Front site bounded by timber fence. Shared outhouse to rear site.

Though modest in design and small in stature, this cottage forms part of a terrace of similar structures, which were built for the employees of the Birr Castle estate. The special character of this cottage is reflected in the survival of original features such as its timber sash windows and timber battened door with decorative door canopy. The decorative circular window adds further to the attractive façade and it is of note that this terrace of nineteenth-century cottages won a Royal Agricultural Society gold medal for their design in the 1870s.