14916015 14935001 14802029 14942016 14904016 14804032 14802036 14918013 14802026 14916016 14917012 14947001 14908002 14912010 14802017 14936014 14818022 14909055 14912007 14942027 14941007 14939012 14933010 Record of Protected Structures Offaly County Development Plan 2014‐2020 October 2014 Record of Protected Structures Offaly County Development Plan 2014‐2020 This Record of Protected Structures (RPS) is part of the County Development Plan for Offaly, 2014‐2020 which was adopted by the members of Offaly County Council on 15th September 2014 and came into force on 13th October 2014. This Record of Protected Structures contains 884 structures which are located within the administrative area of Offaly County Council i.e. excluding Tullamore Municipal District and Birr Municipal District. The structures contained within the Tullamore Municipal District and Birr Municipal District will be reviewed and considered for inclusion during the preparation of their respective town plans. This Record of Protected Structures may be inspected at the Offices of Offaly County Council, Area Offices and Branch Libraries. The RPS may also be viewed and downloaded online at www.offaly.ie/cdp2014‐2020 It may also be purchased from Áras and Chontae, Charleville Road, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Tel: 05793 46800. Maps based on Ordnance Survey base maps may not be copied, reproduced or transmitted without the written agreement of the Ordnance Survey Ireland. Maps printed in this plan are printed under licence agreement: 2014/32/CCMA/OffalyCountyCouncil. Please check with Offaly County Council Planning Section for any additions/amendments/deletions to this Record of Protected Structures. Changes will be displayed on www.offaly.ie. 14944013 14929012 14927007 14916012 14810011 14808023 14810002 14/20 Structure Address Image 03/09 NIAH_Ref Rating Description Appraisal 03-01 Springfield House 14902001 Regional Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1800, with return to rear, entrance porch and flanking castellated bays, c.1840. Located on a quiet by-road off the busy N6, Springfield House is notable for its decorative elements Single-storey extensions to rear elevation. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks and bracketed limestone eaves course with including the castellated flanking bays, petal fanlight, architrave window surrounds and applied decorative FAHEERAN decorative applied roundels. Ruled and lined rendered walls, castellated to flanking bays. Square-headed window openings with roundels to the eaves course. The granite columns to the entrance porch are striking in their simplicity of Tober replacement uPVC windows, stucco architrave surrounds and limestone sills. Round-headed door opening to entrance porch with petal design. Once occupied by a doctor, the east flanking bay accommodated a doctor's surgery while the fanlight, granite columns and timber panelled door. Original entrance gates survive disused to west of house and consist of wrought-iron opposite bay was a screen wall for a sun room. The original entrance gates are located to the west of the Tullamore gates flanked by granite piers with fluted cornice, flanked by quadrant walls with castellation terminating in granite piers. This entrance has house and are no longer in use but survive intact. The elegantly fluted granite gate piers, wrought-iron Tullamore been relocated as part of the Tullamore-Moate bypass. gates and tree lined avenue must once have been an impressive entrance to Springfield House. The castellated quadrant walls on the entrance gates echo the castellated flanking bays to the main house and acts as a unifying element combining both structures. 03-02 Spring Lawn 14902002 Regional Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former private dwelling, built c.1830, with entrance porch to front elevation. Now in use as Though not constructed as a presbytery, Spring Lawn is now the parochial house in Tober after a property parochial house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, open eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. swap some years ago between the owner of Spring Lawn and the local priest. Spring Lawn has since TOBER Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Blind windows to rear elevation. Square-headed been restored and maintained by subsequent parish priests and parishioners. The original form of the Tober door openings set into sides of entrance porch with stucco architrave surrounds and replacement timber and glazed doors. Door building survives as do many original features such as the windows, limestone sills and walled garden all of accessed up limestone steps. Outbuildings to enclosed yard to north of house. Walled garden and ruined farm building to north of house. which contribute to the character and significance of the structure. The flowerbeds, mature varieties of Tullamore trees and maintained gardens provide a fitting setting for Spring Lawn. Tullamore 03-03 Holy Family Church 14902003 Regional Detached cruciform Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, with apse and sacristy to north and entrance porch added later. Located within Located in a prominent position in Tober, the Holy Family Church forms a group of socially important a yard and located next to the national school. Pitched tiled roof, c.1985, with replacement rainwater goods, decorative limestone coping structures with the near-by national school. The elaborate decorative geometrical tracery to the windows TOBER and skew stones. Cross finials to saddle stones. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth and limestone corbelled eaves course. are among the most noticeable decorative feature and contribute to the architectural and artistic Tober Pointed arched window openings to nave with chamfered limestone surround and hoodmoulding incorporating geometric tracery and significance of the structure. The interior of the church is enhanced by the notable hammerbeam roof stained glass windows. Pair of pointed-arched window openings surmounted by oculi to transepts. Pointed-arched door opening to trusses and the decorative cast-iron balustrade to the choir gallery. Tullamore entrance porch with limestone reveals and glazed double doors. Nave divided by central aisle. Altar in apse to liturgical east end and Tullamore gallery to liturgical west end. Hammerbeam trusses to interior. 03-04 Tober House 14902004 Regional Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1780, with return to rear and modern conservatory constructed to south-west The modest, well proportioned and symmetrical form of Tober House typifies late eighteenth-century Irish of house. Set in its own grounds amongst landscaped lawns. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement rainwater domestic architecture. The round-headed limestone architrave door surround is another feature found on GORTEEN (KILCOURSEY BY) goods. Roughcast rendered walls with a tooled limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber sash houses of this age and contributes to the architectural and artistic significance of the house. The house, Tullamore window sand limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with limestone architrave surround, glazed fanlight and timber battened door. rear yard and additional farm buildings together create an interesting group of domestic structures. Tober Door accessed up four limestone steps. L-plan range of two-storey random coursed stone outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate House is set amongst well-maintained gardens and is approached up a sweeping driveway. Tullamore roofs. Carriage arch opening to coach house. Additional farm buildings to south-west of house and access to yard. Main entrance gates Tullamore to house located to south-west of house comprises pebbledashed piers and quadrant walls with stone coping and a wrought-iron gate. 03-05 Woodfield House 92 14902005 Regional Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey with attic house, built in 1733, with pedimented entrance bay and a single-bay single-storey Though modest in its design and decoration, Woodfield House is a high quality example of early eighteenth- extension to east. Set in its own grounds and amongst walled gardens. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron century Irish domestic architecture. It displays characteristics typical of this period including the CURRAGHBOY OR WOODFIELD rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with a limestone ogee cornice. Square-headed window openings, enlarged c.1840 to timber pedimented entrance bay, high pitched roof and limestone door surround. Woodfield House is notable Woodfield sash Wyatt windows with limestone sills. Oculus set within pediment. Square-headed door opening set within a limestone pedimented amongst other houses in Offaly of this period as it has survived remarkably intact and, for the most part, surround incorporating a spoked fanlight. Architrave surround flanked by console brackets supporting open-bed pediment. Timber untouched over time. The house is well maintained and set amongst gardens that contribute positively to Tullamore panelled door is accessed up two limestone steps. Screen wall to west of house with cast-iron pedestrian access gate. Single- and two- the setting of the house. The family who built the house in 1733 still occupy the property. Tullamore storey outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered and random coursed walls. Two-stage tower at corner of walled garden to north of house.