Survey Data
Reg No
12318028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
271034, 143855
Date Recorded
17/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, post-1903, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, two-bay two-storey side elevations, and single-bay two-storey lean-to lower return to north. Hipped slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on axis with ridge having profiled coping on dentilated course, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat concrete roof to porch with moulded cornice. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered chamfered piers to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Tudor-headed window openings to porch in three-part arrangement with concrete sills, and timber casement window having fixed-pane sidelights. Tudor-headed door opening to porch with replacement glazed timber door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on an elevated site with landscaped grounds having random rubble granite boundary wall, rock-faced cut-granite piers having cut-stone capping, and iron double gates.
Appraisal
A well-composed middle-size house presenting an early aspect with the original form and massing in place together with most of the original fabric both to the exterior and to the interior. Sparsely detailed the Tudor quality introduced by the profile of the openings to the porch enhances the architectural design value of the composition while red brick dressings further enliven the external expression of the site. Occupying a prominent position overlooking Chapel Street the house makes a pleasing impression in the townscape of Graiguenamanagh.