Survey Data
Reg No
12004006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
School master's house
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
250865, 156761
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Archival Description [Demolished ----]: Detached three-bay two-storey national school teachers' house, built 1938, on a T-shaped plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (north). Vacated, 1999. Burnt, 2003. Disused, 2004. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, concrete coping to gables on corbel kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered base. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing boarded-up six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement centred on square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sill course, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in overgrown grounds on a corner site with roughcast piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
Archival Appraisal [Demolished ----]: A national school teachers' house representing an integral component of the twentieth-century built heritage of Kilkenny with the architectural value of the composition, one erected for occupation by staff of the Kilkenny Model National School on its transferral (1936) from its original campus in Ormonde Road (See 12001087), suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with those openings showing conservative neo-Georgian tripartite glazing patterns; and the high pitched roof.