House - 18th/19th century, Blackfort, Co. Tipperary

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House – 18th/19th century, Blackfort, Co. Tipperary

Sitting in the flat pastureland of County Tipperary, this early eighteenth-century house at Blackfort carries more architectural ambition than its surroundings might suggest.

The facade is five bays wide with a three-bay breakfront, a compositional device that draws the eye inward toward the central doorway, where Corinthian pilasters, a lugged architrave, and a scroll pediment combine into an entrance that would not look out of place on a prosperous town house. The walls, nearly a metre thick, support two storeys over a basement, and gable-ended chimney stacks anchor the roofline at either end.

The closest point of comparison is Damer House in Roscrea, a well-documented early Georgian townhouse built in the 1720s, and the resemblance in style suggests both buildings belong to the same regional moment in Irish domestic architecture, when landed and mercantile families in North Tipperary were adopting the formal symmetry and classical ornament then fashionable in Dublin and beyond. Internally, the house is divided into three sections, with the staircase occupying the central portion, a plan that keeps the principal rooms to either side. That staircase, however, is not original; it was replaced in the 1920s, leaving one significant gap in the early fabric. At the rear there is a T-shaped projection whose date and purpose remain uncertain.

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