Worker's house in Kilkea Upper

Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone built former estate worker's cottage with half-dormer attic, c.1820. Now in ruins. Gable-ended roof. Roof now gone. Rubble stone walls. Hammer dressed cut-granite quoins. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Banded granite architraves. Fittings now gone. Cut-granite lintel to door opening. Fittings now gone. Set back from road perpendicular to road. Overgrown grounds to site.

This former estate worker's house - possibly originally built as accommodation for a labourer of the nearby Kilkea Demesne - is a picturesque, small-scale building of modest appearance. Typical of the small-scale buildings on the lands of the Duke of Leinster the house is composed on a symmetrical plan and probably originally contained the basic accommodation necessary. The construction of the house is of interest and juxtaposes rubble stone and cut-granite to polychromatic effect. The stone masonry of the locally sourced cut-granite to the openings is particularly refined and is a somewhat unusual feature on a building of this type. The house is located perpendicular to the road side and is an attractive feature in the locality.