Sadleir, Thomas (1774-1842)

Rathurles House, Co Tipperary

by jenjunebug

Rathurles House, Nenagh, 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. 240. (Brereton/IFR) A two storey Georgian house, six bay front with pedimented and fanlighted doorway flanked by two narrow windows. Windows with external shutters.” 

Rathurles House, County Tipperary, courtesy Mark Bence-Jones.

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Rathurles House, County Tipperary, courtesy National Inventory.

Detached six-bay two-storey over half basement house, built c. 1800, with three-bay gable elevations. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to upper storeys, roughly dressed limestone walls, moulded limestone eaves course, basement string course and having round-headed alcoves to gables. Square-headed openings with timber sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, timber casement to ground, and replacement timber with brick voussoirs to basement, all with cut stone sills. Inserted early eighteenth-century carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase, flanked by sidelights with replacement windows and having replacement glazed timber door with lintel and cobweb fanlight above, surmounted by open-bed pediment supported on consoles. Flight of limestone steps leading to door. Ruins of earlier castle to site. 

Appraisal 

The form and scale of this house are enhanced by the retention of features such as timber sash and casement windows and roof slates. The diminishing windows and well-carved Gibbsian doorway are typical of Georgian-style architecture. 

 
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Rathurles was the home of the Brereton family in the 19th century. Occupied by John Brereton in 1814 and T. Brereton in 1837. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as “a modern building”. Thomas Brereton was still resident at the time of Griffith’s Valuation holding the property valued at £27.15 shillings from Patrick Kernan. Home of Hugh Finch in the 1870s. This house is still extant and occupied.   

Ballyknockane Lodge, Ballypatrick, Co. Tipperary 

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Ballyknockane Lodge, Ballypatrick, 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.

[Butler, Ormonde) 

p. 23. “A shooting lodge of the Marquesses of Ormonde at the foot of Slievenaman on the lands of Kilcash Castle; built 1867 to the design of Sir Thomas Newenham Deane. Of stone, wiht gables, overhanging roofs and bargeboards. Now a residence of Mr and Mrs Kenneth O’Reilly-Hyland.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207805/ballyknockane-house-ballyknockane-ballymackey-pr-tipperary-south

Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, with remains of gabled porch to front, full-height lean-to extension to rear and pitched sheet metal roofed single-storey extension to north-east. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with ridge tiles, overhanging rendered eaves, rendered chimneystacks with decorative clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render plinth and eaves course. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows. Façade and east gable have three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor and other elevations have two-over-two pane and three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, all with tooled cut limestone sills. Square headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight with glazing bars, having timber panelling to surround, latter formerly interior wall of once extant pitched roof porch. Raised area incorporating uppermost cut limestone step and having enclosing wall to entrance. Yard of outbuildings to north having pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and roughcast rendered walls. Multiple-bay two-storey buildings to east and west, south gable of former having round-headed window and ashlar limestone bellcote with string course and round-arched opening with projecting keystone. Building to west has square-headed timber sliding sash three-over-six pane and three-over-three pane windows. Building to north is single-storey with square-headed and segmental-headed carriage entrances. Walls of former walled garden to north-east of site. Cut limestone piers with cast-iron gates to newly-formed entrance. 

Appraisal 

This elegant, classically-proportioned house is attractively situated in landscaped surrounds. It retains its timber sliding sash windows and its external form and character have changed little since the early nineteenth century. The associated outbuildings add to the context of the house and the ashlar limestone bellcote is evidence of good quality stonecraft. 

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Marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Ballyknockane Cottage, valued at £21 and occupied by Walter Asper at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He held the property from the Marquess of Ormonde. In 1894 Slater noted it as part of the latter estate. This building no longer exists.