Survey Data
Reg No
12305021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1835
Coordinates
240635, 164083
Date Recorded
19/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1825. Extensively renovated, c.1925, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added. Reroofed, post-1994. Pitched roof with replacement oat or reed thatch, post-1994, having rope work to ridge, and painted rendered chimney stacks. Flat concrete roof to porch. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction having sections of mud wall construction with rendered strips to corners to porch supporting rendered band. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1925, retaining one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with lattice boundary wall having painted rendered piers, and timber gate. (ii) Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1925, to east. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded door.
Appraisal
A picturesque cottage forming an important element of the vernacular heritage of Freshford as identified by characteristics including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the thatched roof, and so on. Surviving as one of the last structures on a road historically lined on the east side by thatched ranges the cottage remains is of additional importance for the associations with the Bishop of Ossory (n. d.) who financed the construction while residing at nearby Uppercourt House (12305022/KK-13-05-22). Having been reasonably well maintained the cottage presents an early aspect with most of the original form and massing intact together with much of the historic fabric, thereby making a positive impression on the aesthetic appeal of the street scene.