Survey Data
Reg No
20820005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
180746, 98431
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. Flat-roof porch addition to front elevation. North elevation has full-height canted-bay windows to 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 front elevation. 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, having mainly replacement uPVC windows, except for south elevation and first floor of north elevation. Tripartite square-headed opening to upper dormer window in south elevation, with red brick between windows. Westmost bay to south elevation 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. Other south elevation windows are two-over-two pane. Porch has flat canopy over entrance, rendered walls and replacement window in side wall, square-headed carved timber panelled door with cut liemstone steps. Round-headed inner door opening having visible spoked fanlight above porch. Rubble limestone boundary walls to north with square-profile rendered piers having decorative cast-iron double-leaf vehicular and single pedestrian gates.
Appraisal
This large house, together with its pair to the west, is a very unusual feature on the Fermoy landscape. 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 by 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 render detailing adds decorative interest to the structure.