Survey Data
Reg No
20820004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
180733, 98428
Date Recorded
28/08/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached two-storey with dormer attic house, built c. 1900, one of a pair, forming western half of an overall H-plan. Four-bay front, west, elevation, southern two bays being progressively lower than others, and opposite end bays projecting from rest of building. North elevation has canted-bay windows to ground and first floors of projecting bay and south elevation has dormer windows to two bays, with pedimented gablets, gablet to upper roof having two dormer windows, one belonging to adjoining house. Artificial slate roofs, pitched to north and hipped elsewhere, with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rooflight. Timber strapping to gablet over to front elevation and ball finial to north gable. Painted rendered walls with terracotta string courses to north elevation and with moulded brick string course to south elevation. Red brick round-headed arch motif to upper north elevation, with decorative shield and render detail. Square-headed window openings with render sills and timber sliding sash windows, some bi-partite four-over-one pane and some two-over-one pane. Square-headed openings to canted bay windows with render surrounds and timber sliding sash windows, variously two, three and four-over-one pane. Tripartite square-headed openings to upper dormer window in south elevation with red brick between windows, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to lower dormer. Easternmost bay has quadripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows front and back to upper floor, having moulded sill supported on corbels and and round-arched window openings front and back to ground floor, with keystones. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, timber architrave and overlight, and steps. Windbreak to entrance having red brick plinth walls and rendered walls above. Rubble boundary walls to north with square-profile rendered piers having ball finials and double-leaf timber battened gates.
Appraisal
This large house, together with its pair to the east, is a very unusual feature in the Fermoy townscape. The semi-detached plan is remarkable, as it allows for the rears, rather than the sides, of the buildings to join. Equal amounts of decorative interest and variations of form are applied to each of the elevations, using a variety of means. The tall roofline, dormer windows and lowering bays are elements which give the form of the overall building an Arts and Crafts style. The building retains features such as the timber sash windows and panelled door and these, together with the use of brick dressings and timber decoration, add further interest to the site.