Survey Data
Reg No
11902105
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1837
Coordinates
263194, 212889
Date Recorded
31/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Pitched oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, limewashed red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed battered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road.
Appraisal
A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat straw thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or replicated fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained group alongside an opposing house (see 11902106) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.