House

House in Limerick, Ireland, dating from 1835–1840

Terraced three-bay four-storey over basement house, built between 1835-38, forming part of a terrace collectively referred to as the Tontine Building, which forms a grand composition of six houses, each of which is unified by a number of architectural features including a rusticated limestone ashlar ground floor elevation, a wrought-iron balcony, fenestration alignment and limestone ashlar parapet entablature. Two-bay three-storey return to rear prolonged by two-storey section. Roof structure concealed behind a parapet wall to front and rear elevation. Red brick chimneystack with moulded clay pots, rise from the party wall to north and south. Tooled limestone ashlar basement elevation terminating at ground floor level with a smooth limestone ashlar plinth course above which a channel rusticated limestone ashlar elevation articulates the ground floor; first, second and third floor elevations are faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond with original lime mortar pointing. Limestone ashlar parapet entablature. Red brick faced rear elevation laid in Flemish bond, with cement repointing; limestone coping to parapet wall. Square-headed window openings to front and rear, with red brick flat arches (limestone lintels and reveals to ground floor openings of façade), patent rendered reveals, limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows to ground second and third floor level, nine

Type:
House

Period:
1835–1840

Where:
Limerick, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.66°N, 8.63°W

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