- Address
- Rosse Row, Oxmantown Mall, Birr
- Type
- House
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14819078
Walcot Cottage
Rosse Row, Oxmantown Mall, Birr
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Walcot Cottage
The National Inventory rates Walcot Cottage Regional, one of 295 in Birr. Walcot Cottage dates from 1830–1850. 162 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This modestly scaled house has been embellished with the additions of an intricately carved porch and highly ornate window balconettes, the latter of which are more commonly seen on the upper floors of mid eighteenth-century townhouses.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14819078 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 14819078↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Birr · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
27 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded houses near Birr
Start with Birr Castle in Birr, 300 m away. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Birr holds 1 of these 8.
Questions about Walcot Cottage
Is Walcot Cottage on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14819078).
Can you visit Walcot Cottage?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Walcot Cottage built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1830–1850.
Is Walcot Cottage protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).