Saint Canice's Cathedral
Almshouse in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1665–1675
Attached three-bay single-storey almshouse with half-dormer attic, pre-1672, incorporating fabric of earlier manse, c.1275. Extensively renovated, c.1925, with half-dormer attic remodelled to accommodate residential use. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof (gabled to half-dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Ivy-clad unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.1925) with cut-limestone sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, c.1925, having some timber casement windows throughout. Ogee-headed door opening with carved cut-limestone surround having moulded reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in partitioned shared grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to forecourt having chamfered coping.
- Type:
- Almshouse
- Period:
- 1665–1675
- Where:
- Kilkenny, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.66°N, 7.26°W
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