Curraghmore

House in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1750–1760

Detached five-bay three- and four-storey over basement Classical-style house, c.1755, on a symmetrical plan incorporating fabric of earlier houses, 1654, and 1700, comprising five-bay three-storey main block with single-bay four-stage entrance tower to centre (first stage double-height) incorporating fabric of medieval tower house, pre-1654, having single-bay double-height flat-roofed flanking bays extending into five-bay two-storey projecting perpendicular ranges, seven-bay three-storey side elevations (having single-bay single-storey linking bay to south-east extending into single-bay single-storey canted pavilion block), and seven-bay three-storey Garden (south-west) Front having three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Renovated, c.1785, with interior reordered. Extensively renovated, c.1875, producing present aspect. Hipped slate roofs (on quadrangular plan to main block; on L-shaped plans to flanking bays and perpendicular wings) behind parapets with rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having moulded stringcourses over red brick construction, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls (rusticated to basement level and to ground floor breakfront to Garden (south-west) Front having piers) with rendered and cut-limestone dressings including pilasters to entrance tower on stringcourses, quoins to corners to perpendicular ranges, stringcourses (s

Type:
House

Period:
1750–1760

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.29°N, 7.36°W

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