Survey Data
Reg No
13902424
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
304288, 277547
Date Recorded
19/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1867. L-plan, gable-fronted porch to south, return and lean-to extension to north. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, lead valleys, painted roughcast-rendered shouldered corbelled chimneystacks, clay pots, projecting eaves with painted timber sheeted soffit and exposed rafter ends, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes, limestone verge coping to porch. Painted roughcast-rendered walling to south and north elevations, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to east and west elevations, smooth rendered plinth and V-jointed quoins. Square-headed and pointed arch window openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted tooled stone sills, uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted smooth rendered soffit and reveals, painted timber four-panel door, three tooled limestone steps; square-headed door opening to north, painted timber vertically-sheeted door with glass top panels. Sited within own grounds, garden to east, west and south bounded by rubble plinth wall with soldier coping, ashlar gate piers to south.
Appraisal
Designed by architect William F. Caldbeck for Rev. Matthew Kearney, PP. This parochial house plays an important role socially and historically due to its association with Tullyallen Catholic Church. Though windows have been replaced there is an interesting array of window shapes and the substantial porch and door are also noteworthy features.