Survey Data

Reg No

20818031


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Historical, Social


Original Use

Almshouse


In Use As

Almshouse


Date

1775 - 1780


Coordinates

181449, 113121


Date Recorded

03/10/2006


Date Updated

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Description

Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1777 as part of scheme of almshouses. Westernmost bay shared with neighbouring property and having blind window opening to first floor and round-headed brick niche to ground floor, latter having limestone keystone, sill and imposts. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone eaves course, rendered chimneystacks, terracotta chimney pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered coursed limestone walls. Camber-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and basement and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, all having limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, spoked timber fanlight, brick block-and-start surround and limestone steps over area with rendered parapet walls having dressed limestone copings. Rendered boundary wall with limestone coping and cast-iron railings.

Appraisal

Kingston College was built by the Earl of Kingston for the "poor Gentlemen and Gentlewomen members of the Church of Ireland," with tenants of the estate having priority. This house shares a bay with its neighbour, the bay in question having two classically-arranged blind openings, a feature echoed in similar locations elsewhere in the group. The retention of timber sash windows and the timber panelled door, as well as its cast-iron railings, considerably enhances this building's historic character.