Coole Abbey

House in Cork, Ireland, dating from 1760–1770

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1765, having shallow three-bay breakfront and three-bay side elevations. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls to front elevation and basement levels, roughcast rendered elsewhere. Breakfront has rusticated limestone Ionic-style pilaster quoins to ends and flanking openings. Cut limestone quoins to corners of front elevation and moulded limestone plinth to basement level. Timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills throughout, mainly square-headed and having six-over-six pane windows to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor. Carved kneed and shouldered limestone surrounds to front elevation, ground floor of breakfront having Greek key motif to lintels. Round-headed window to upper breakfront, flanked by square-headed windows, and having moulded imposts, moulded limestone archivolt with keystone, and spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed window openings to basement level having cut limestone voussoirs and keystones with double timber casement eight-pane windows. Carved limestone cornice between upper floors of breakfront, with mutules, having triglyphs below. Entrance comprising channelled limestone surround with carved limestone Doric-style pilasters flanking square-headed door opening with decorative overlight incorporating cobweb fanlight, and ti

Type:
House

Period:
1760–1770

Where:
Cork, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.11°N, 8.21°W

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