Survey Data
Reg No
14402404
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1850
Coordinates
282789, 268194
Date Recorded
22/01/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey four-bay house, built c.1820. Constructed of randomly coursed limestone with roughcast render and raised rendered quoins. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick chimneystacks to north and south gables. Square-headed openings to windows with stone sills and rendered keystones with replacement uPVC windows. Replacement timber door with rendered block-and-start surround and lintel to centre of main (west) elevation. Cast-iron gate and railings to main (west) elevation. Single-storey single-bay extension to north with corrugated metal sheet roof. Single-storey three-bay building constructed of random rubble with pitched corrugated metal roof attached to extension to north. This may have been a separate dwelling in the past but is now used as an outbuilding. Outbuilding to west with diamond-pattern cast-iron windows, now in use as garage.
Appraisal
Although this house has been renovated in the recent past it is still interesting in terms of its architectural form and design. Of particular note is the rendered block-and-start surround to the main door. The real interest of this building is in its relationship with the unusual collection of single-storey cottages to the immediate north. It is likely that this collection of cottages housed employees of the nearby Ardbraccan Demense in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This offers the possibility that this two-storey building housed someone of importance connected with the running of the demesne such as a farm manager.