Survey Data
Reg No
12308030
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
249745, 157951
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced single-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house, built 1904. Refenestrated. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Mansard (shared) slate roof (lean-to to window openings to first floor) with clay ridge tiles, rendered (shared) tapered chimney stack, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, rendered surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having canopy over. Set back from line of road with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A picturesque small-scale house built as one of a pair (with 12308013/KK-19-08-13) forming part of a group of six related houses (including 12308012, 4, 29, 31/KK-19-08-12, 4, 29, 31) representing an integral component of a planned village built to designs prepared by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) for Ellen Odette Desart (née Bischoffsheim), fourth Countess of Desart (1857-1933) as accommodation for workers associated with the Kilkenny Woodworkers Company together with the nearby Greenvale Woollen Mills (12308004/KK-19-08-04). Idiosyncratic characteristics contributing to the architectural design value of the composition include the distinctive profile of the roof. However, although the retention of the original form and massing maintains some of the character of the ensemble in the landscape the external expression of the composition has not benefited from the insertion of inappropriate replacement fittings to most of the openings.