Survey Data
Reg No
22111003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Caherabbey House
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
205022, 125636
Date Recorded
29/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over-basement house, built c. 1830, with four-bay rear elevation, portico to front elevation, and projecting bay with lean-to roof to middle of west elevation. Skirt artificial slate roof, with coursed cut-stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, with sheeted overhanging eaves and moulded eaves course. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills and timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, three-over-six pane to basement with wrought-iron bars. West elevation has round-headed timber sliding sash nine-over-six pane window and three-over-six pane window. Painted rendered prostyle tetrastyle portico to main entrance with Ionic columns and pilasters, moulded pediment and cornices and stone flagged pavement accessed by flight of stone steps. Square-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door having moulded render surround and decorative leaded overlight, flanked by two-over-two pane timber sliding sash sidelights. Dropped arch entrance opening to basement level at west elevation, with replacement glazed timber screen and door and spoked fanlight. Square-headed entrance opening to east elevation basement with replacement glazed timber double-leaf door. Situated in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
This is a fine country house with classical proportions, exhibited by the diminishing windows to the façade, and the well-designed and crafted pedimented portico to the entrance. The flight of steps and pavement and large cut-stone chimneystack emphasise the grandeur of the building. The house has been sympathetically maintained and retains its characteristic context, scale and form.