Survey Data
Reg No
15602020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1860 - 1904
Coordinates
291805, 157103
Date Recorded
14/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey worker's house with half-dormer attic, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay single-storey on a symmetrical plan. Pitched slate roof extending into lean-to slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Central door opening. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite lugged surrounds having chamfered reveals framing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting tubular street "farm gate".
Appraisal
A worker's house erected by the Hall-Dares of Newtownbarry House representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of Bunclody with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely intended for occupation by the head gardener of an adjoining walled garden (see 15602021) suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched roofline: meanwhile, a feint masonry break illustrates the continued linear development of the worker's house at the turn of the twentieth century. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a worker's house making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.