Survey Data
Reg No
20808028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Doneraile House
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1820 - 1880
Coordinates
160201, 107246
Date Recorded
18/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Kitchen and game store wing attached to south-west elevation of Doneraile Court, built c. 1870, comprising two-storey single-bay octagonal-plan game store, attached to two-bay two-storey kitchen to south by single-bay single-storey link. Single-storey additions to south-east link to multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding. Game-store has octagonal hipped slate roof, pitched slate to link, with coursed limestone rubble walls. Camber-headed window openings to game store, with red brick voussoirs and boarded, with double six-over-six pane replacement timber sliding sash windows visible to interior. Most recently in use as kitchen, having flagstone floor. Game hanging rack to interior first floor. Square-headed boarded window opening to link, with red brick voussoirs and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window visible to interior. Square-headed boarded door opening with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber doors to interior. Hipped and pitched slate roof to kitchen, with red brick chimneystack and red brick stepped eaves course, and coursed limestone rubble walls. Round-headed window opening to west flanked by boarded oculus openings having red brick surrounds, with double replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to interior with fanlight, flanked by fixed timber oculus windows. Square-headed boarded window openings to south elevation having red brick voussoirs, with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows visible to interior. Square-headed door opening with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber door. Flagstone floor to interior, having groin-vaulted ceiling over supported on Doric pilasters. Servants' bells to north and east walls. Decorative round-headed recess to east wall having moulded render surround and flanked by round-headed niches, having replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Fireplace to south wall having tooled limestone surround to camber-headed opening with wrought-iron grate. Square-headed blank window opening over. Square-headed door openings to north leading to Doneraile Court, with plaque commemorating opening of house in 1990. Single-bay single-storey projections to south-east having pitched slate roofs. Coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window boarded openings. Most recently in use as public toilets.
Appraisal
This service wing of Doneraile Court is dominated by the unusual octagonal game store, creating a natural focal point made prominent by the removal of the dining room wing of the house in 1970. The red brick detailing highlights the fenestration and rooflines of the kitchen, while the shapes of the round-headed window flanked by occuli windows give a sense of Palladian architecture reflecting that of the house proper. The interior of the kitchen mimics this classical style, with round-headed recesses and niches ranged below a groin vaulted ceiling supported on classical Doric-style pilasters. The kitchens were probably built or remodeled around 1869 when the dining room wing of the house was built, with the red brick details probably fired in a Hoffman Kiln indicating a date after c. 1860. The game store is probably earlier, dating to c. 1825 when the conservatory was also built. The wing was most recently in use as a kitchen and café when Doneraile Court was open to the public, it is now used as a canteen for staff working on the restoration and management of the site.