Beech Hill, Latt

Area

45,880 m² (4.59 ha, 11.34 acres)

Buildings

12 buildings touch it, 3,880 m² on the ground

Zoning

S5 Public Community (Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028) The objective
R2 Existing Residential (Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028) The objective
G1 Amenity and Open Space (Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028) The objective
R4 Strategic Residential Reserve (Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028) The objective
C2.1 General Enterprise and Employment (Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Latt

Planning applications on this parcel

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  to retain development consisting of single storey front extension to facilitate a hairdressing salon and single storey front extension to facilitate an office and associated work

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 20583

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• CV020-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised roughly circular area (int. dims. 32m NE-SSW; 28.5m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow, partly waterlogged fosse. From W-N-NE fosse has been adapted for use as a field drain in modern times. Break in bank at N with partly destroyed accompanying causeway may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Saint Felim's Hospital, workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor Revival H-plan two- and three-storey workhouse with dormer attic, built 1841-42, later used as a hospital, now disused. Layout consists of five-bay two-storey front building to east close to site entrance, with former children’s yards to rear, in front of thirteen-bay main building having advanced double-pile gable-fronted end bays containing adult wards. Hip-roofed single-storey laundry and kitchen blocks to rear flanking single-storey utility spine and separating former adults’ yards. Two-storey infirmary block forms west end of yards, former infirmary yards behind this with single-storey mortuary building on axis to rear adjoining walled garden. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, decorative timber bargeboards to road-facing gables and dormer windows, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and snecked random-coursed rubble sandstone walls with flush cut stone quoins, square-headed openings with cut stone voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds, all with stone sills. Double leaf timber panelled door in Tudor arch with overlight set within dressed-stone block-and-start square-headed opening. Tripartite timber sash windows with convex horns to gable-fronted block and flanking main door opening. Variety of timber sashes and casements to other windows, diamond pane lattice windows to dormers. Entrance block set lower than main building connected by external steps, has gabled breakfronts to outer bays, gablets above windows in inner bays all with decorative time bargeboards. Chamfered surrounds to first floor windows with banded block and start surrounds and Tudor hood mouldings in outer bays. Continuous string course at first foor level, stepping up over wall plaque above entrance door having ‘1841’ in raised letters within recessed panel. Main doorway in chamfered Tudor arch with dressed block and start surrounds flanked by lower windows in similar chamfered surround with connected Tudor hood mouldings. Set on a sloping site with steps down to double-leaf cast-iron entrance gates in piers with rendered wing walls. Complex partially bounded by rubble stone walls, having many fine mature trees and partly screened from view from the road. Substantial monument of Christ The King raised on Gothic style pedestal dated A.D. 1933 to front of gabled end bays to south of main block. Small mortuary with slate roof and roughly coursed stone walls alongside walled garden with tall roughly coursed sandstone walls to the west of rear block. Consecrated ground known as Bully’s Acre on hill slope to north-west of workhouse with unmarked graves of infants and paupers commemorated by single grave marker. Fever hospital on adjoining site to south.

• St Felim’s Hospital, workhouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached H-plan five-bay three-storey former workhouse hospital, built 1847, with advanced gable-fronted end bays and single-storey section between end bays to rear, now disused. Steeply pitched slate roofs behind raised gable copings to front and rear with flat corbelled kneelers at eaves, rendered chimneystacks flanking centre bays, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble sandstone walls with dressed quoinstones and window sorrounds. Pointed-arched openings with timber louvres to apex of gables at front and rear. Square-headed window openings having flush block-and start dressings and cut-stone sills with multiple-pane timber windows composed of pivoted overlight over transom and side-hung casements closing to central mullion. Square-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf doors and historic multi-pane overlight flanked by square-headed multiple-pane side lights, all under stepped label moulding enclosing large datestone over door inscribed '1847'. Single-storey buildings to rear, possibly former isolation ward, having slate roof, random ashlar walls and multiple pane timber windows.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

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