Clontra

Country house in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1855–1865

Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey country house with half-attic, built 1858-60, on a square plan with full-width single-storey projecting open porch to ground floor. Vacant, 1896. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 2005. Sold, 2013. Hipped gabled slate roof on a quadrangular plan including gablets to window openings to half-attic, trefoil-perforated clay ridge tiles, granite ashlar chimney stacks including paired granite ashlar central chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation on T-shaped plans with red brick Running bond corbelled stepped stringcourses below cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked granite walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Triangular-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with cut-sandstone surround having concave reveals framing timber panelled double doors. Paired square-headed window openings behind cusped openings (west) with pointed quatrefoil-perforated Caen stone balconette, and cut-granite block-and-start surround supporting red brick header bond voussoirs framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window opening behind cusped opening (east) with pointed quatrefoil-perforat

Type:
Country house

Period:
1855–1865

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.23°N, 6.11°W

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