Survey Data
Reg No
41401418
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1740 - 1745
Coordinates
276328, 328523
Date Recorded
08/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-storey over basement glebe house, built 1742, having five-bay first floor and three-bay ground and top floors, gabled porch to front elevation, and with single-bay return and two single-storey additions to rear (east). Now in use as private house. Pitched replacement slate roof, having three gable-fronted dormer windows to front elevation, replacement uPVC rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends having canted ends and replacement terracotta chimney pots. Smooth rendered walls to west elevation, roughcast elsewhere, having blank shields to gables of porch and dormers. Square-headed window replacement uPVC windows throughout, irregularly sized and spaced to rear additions. Label-moulding to central dormer. Porch spans basement area, and has triangulated parapet, square-headed replacement timber door, and approached by three limestone steps flanked by rendered plinth walls. Meandering tarmac driveway approaching house, located on former Dublin to Derry road.
Appraisal
This former glebe house retains some of its social and historic interest, originally having been the ecclesiastical residence for the Church of Ireland clergy of Clontibret. It forms part of a group of church related buildings with the nearby former Clontibret School and Saint Coleman's Church. Lewis records in his Topographical Dictionary that the Glebe House was erected in 1752 by aid of a gift of £100 from the Board of First Fruits. Set in its own grounds it is afforded privacy by a meandering driveway with a recent automatic gate and timber fencing. Despite recent alterations including the replacement of original windows, this attractive former glebe house retains much of its classically ordered eighteenth-century form and character.