Survey Data
Reg No
30409620
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
155278, 221887
Date Recorded
02/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement glebe house, built c.1800, with two-storey over basement stairs return to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roofs, with paired rendered chimneystacks to main block. Rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course to ground floor. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Blind windows to first floor of gable ends. Pedimented tripartite cut limestone doorcase, with square-headed door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with six-over-six small-pane timber sliding sashes having cut limestone sills, and approached by flight of cut limestone steps with cut limestone retaining walls. Rectangular-profile cut limestone piers and dressed limestone flanking walls to road entrance. Set within mature grounds.
Appraisal
The diminishing windows, pedimented doorcase and symmetrical façade are evidence of the classical influences on the design of this house. The three-bay two-storey over basement elevation is typical of rectories in Ireland, although the imposing scale is unusual. The ornate and finely executed limestone doorcase draws the eye creating a focus to an otherwise plain façade.