Survey Data
Reg No
20900805
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
154574, 117697
Date Recorded
16/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1905, on a cruciform plan with single-bay two-storey breakfront and two-bay two-storey return. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with pitched slate roof to return, terracotta ridge tiles, and rendered chimney stacks. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, rendered surrounds and replacement uPVC casement windows. Camber-headed door opening with rendered surround and replacement uPVC door. Square-profile cast-iron piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates and pedestrian entrances adjoining square-profile painted rendered piers.
Appraisal
This parochial house built to a design by Brian Edward Fitzgerald Sheehy (1870-1929/30) of Limerick (Irish Builder 1904, 56) presents an interesting interpretation of the typical three-bay, two-storey dwelling built in the classical style. The façade consists of a series of window openings with the doorway to the side of the breakfront. This gives the façade a continuous, uninterrupted rhythm. The house retains interesting materials and features such as the limestone sills and slate roof. The gates are particularly ornate with cast-iron piers and gates with flanking rendered piers. The parochial house forms part of a group of ecclesiastical buildings with the nearby Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church (see 20900804).