ME Residence
- ME Residence
- Renovation and Extension
- Mullacash South, Naas, Co. Kildare
- Under Construction
Located in a little cluster of dwellings outside Naas in Co. Kildare Century Cottage was a little dwelling in need of help. An existing extension offered much need additional accommodation but the house lacked a heart and centre and a better connection with the ample garden space. The solution was to extend the building towards the gardens and around a new sunny courtyard that acts as the bright and warm external fulcrum of the home around which the new contemporary spaces array. Clad in charred larch and metal roofing the new extensions are bold and distinct and clearly executed as a new chapter and patina in the intriguing fabric and history of this countryside cottage.
For this small church, the conversion to a domestic function seemed natural and uncontentious. The scale of the original church building was domestic and the decoration modest. The new function also modest and singular in purpose in that it is for a new family or people to live together in “under one roof”. Tattykeeran Church may have become simply 44 Tattykeeran Road but it is still there for those who were baptised or married in it to see and we hope it has been presented in such a way that the sensibilities of those people and the significance of those community and life events are not slighted but preserved. Certainly the comments and words from many interested visitors and parishoners to the project during construction (among them the Sunday school teacher, the sextons son) would indicate that it has been a success in this respect. A further gesture and nod of approval has come from vestry committee of the surviving Colebrooke Estate church who have reintrusted us with the original bell (it is suitably minus the clapper) made in Murphys Foundry in Dublin.
