Cappamurra, Dundrum, Co Tipperary
Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 56. ” A two storey house with round-headed windows in its upper storey and windows of unusual shape below. A seat of the Grene family.”
Detached formerly T-plan five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1720, with attic, shallow breakfront with gable-fronted entrance porch to front with windows to side walls, and having central return, slightly lower two-storey addition and single- and two-storey extensions to rear and north-west. Pitched sprocketed artificial slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks, one projecting to south-west gable. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Façade has round-headed window openings to first floor with cut limestone voussoirs and keystones and segmental-arched openings to ground floor with roughly-dressed voussoirs narrowing from impost level to flat-headed windows. Square-headed windows to rear. Painted sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout except for one timber sliding sash three-over-six window to return. Round-headed tooled limestone doorcase with block-and-start surround, voussoirs, having hood-moulding linking raised keystone to imposts. Replacement timber door with plain fanlight and inner doorway with spoked fanlight. Ranges of outbuildings to rear with rubble limestone walls and cut limestone segmental-headed arches. Rendered rubble limestone coach house to north-east range with pedimented bellcote with croix pommées over segmental carriage arch with imposts. Cast-iron pump to courtyard.
Appraisal
The classical proportions enhance the form and scale of this imposing house. The stone doorcase and the unusual limestone voussoirs to the windows enliven the otherwise regular form of the building. The related outbuildings contribute to the setting of the house.
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The Grene family home occupied by John Grene in the first half of the 19th century. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £24 in the early 1850s. In 1841 the Ordnance Survey Name Books describe it as “a gentleman’s seat in a very handsome demesne of considerable extent”. It is still extant.
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