Survey Data
Reg No
12308033
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
249753, 157914
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay single-storey Arts-and-Crafts-style house with dormer attic, built 1903, originally thatched. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. One of a group of six. Pitched (shared) roof (hipped gabled (shared) to half-dormer attic window) with replacement clay tile, c.1950, laid in diagonal courses, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered (shared) chimney stack, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rock-faced cut-limestone walls to ground floor with painted roughcast walls over. Square-headed window openings (rising in part to half-dormer attic window) with cut-limestone shallow sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from line of road with wrought iron railings to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A pleasant small-scale house built as one of a group of six houses (including 12308015 - 8, 32/KK-19-08-15 - 8, 32) representing an important element of a planned village sponsored by 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). Built to designs prepared by William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) in a characteristic Arts-and-Crafts style the architectural design value of the composition is enlivened by distinctive attributes including the combination of materials in the construction, the profile of the roof, and so on. However, while most of the original form and massing survive in place the replacement fittings to the openings lacking the character of the original models have not had a positive impact on the external expression of the composition.