Marlow, Goold’s Cross, 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. 203. “(Pennefather/LGI1958) A two storey five bay early C18 house with a gabled C19 addition at one end. The C18 house has a fanlighted doorway with an entablature and a dormered attic in its high-pitched roof; the gable of C19 addition has a bargeboard.”
Detached five-bay two-storey house with half basement and dormer attic, built c.1730, with slightly projecting gable-fronted addition of 1912 to west end having canted-bay window to ground floor, two-bay first floor, single-bay attic floor and two-bay side elevation. Recent single-storey glazed conservatory to east gable. Pitched slate roofs, having decoratively carved bargeboards to over-sailing gables, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, barred to basement, all windows having limestone sills. Cut limestone date plaque to gable-front with inscription ‘Except the Lord build the house they labour in vain that built it 1912’. Entrance doorway has square-headed opening with rendered surround and cornice with slated rooflet, timber panelled door with spoked fanlight in rectangular opening, and limestone steps. Yard of outbuildings to rear and avenue to south. Cast-iron double-leaf gates to road.
Appraisal
This fine early eighteenth-century house bears evidence of having built in phases, this giving much visual, architectural and historical interest to the building. The fine doorcase to the earlier part, reached by a flight of steps, and the decorative bargeboards to the later provide decorative foci to the front facade. The retention of timber sash windows and timber panelled door enhance the architectural heritage value, and the date plaque to the later block, with the biblical inscription, adds further interest, and the various outbuildings add context.
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An early 18th century house, the seat of a branch of the Pennefather family, with some early 20th century additions. Still extant, this house was the residence of Thomas Pennefather in 1814 and Edward Pennefather in the mid 19th century. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £14. The Pennefathers were still resident at Marlow in the mid 20th century.
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