Lodge, Puckaun, 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. 189. “(Studdert/IFR) A plain and slightly irregular two storey five bay late C17 or early C18 house, enlarged mid-C18 by the addition of two one bay wings rising above the centre to the height of an attic storey; one of them with a gable treaded as a pediment and adorned with an eagle and urns; the other with a pediment to match. Each wing had a Diocletian or lunette window above two Venetian windows. The gable has now lost its embellishments and both of the semi-circular attic windows have been blocked up; the surround of one still shows.”
Lodge House, LODGE (KILLODIERNAN PR), Tipperary North
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1700, remodelled and extended, c. 1750, with addition of single-bay flanking wings and addition to north-east end of rear. Now disused. Pitched slate main roof with pitched and hipped later roofs, with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, with limestone quoins to north-east flanking bay. Venetian-style tripartite sash windows to wings with blocked lunettes to upper gables, all with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds. South-west wing retains gable front. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows with limestone sills in square-headed openings elsewhere, those of north-most bay being at different level to rest of façade. Square-headed doorcase with carved limestone surround and cornice and having timber panelled door with ornate overlight. Outbuilding to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Concrete block extensions with artificial slate roofs being added to rear.
Appraisal
This unusual house of irregular plan is a very notable feature on the rural landscape due to its size and form. Its façade is enlivened by features such as the Venetian windows, carved doorcase, and limestone dressings. Some internal plasterwork also remains. It is obviously a house with a history of several centuries and as such is one of the oldest buildings in the district.
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