Conservation The Mall, Mitchelstown

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Description:

Four-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built in c. 1800, with projecting gabled porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystacks. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to porch. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and some aluminium windows. Square-headed replacement aluminium door to porch. Lower three-bay single-storey outbuilding attched to east, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed timber battened doors. Painted rendered boundary walls to front of house having square-plan piers to decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

Brief Description of Project: The society pledged €5,000 for the replacement of the thatched roof using local materials and in the traditional style.

Grant Awarded:

2015: £5,000 from IGS London towards conservation plan and repair of thatched roof

NIAH Listing:

https://www.buildingsofireland...

References to IGS Bulletins and Journals:

'Irish Civic planting, c. 1740- c. 1890'

Author: Patrick Bowe

Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies Vol XI — 2008

https://search.igsjournal.ie/s...