What is recorded here
Arabela House in Arabela has a stern, straight entrance between two great bowed ends. It has the posture of a man squeezing into a wedding photograph while insisting he’s taking up no room at all.
Detached nine-bay two-storey over split-level basement mid-Georgian house, built c. 1760, with three-bay two-storey entrance bay to centre having limestone ashlar pedimented Doric doorcase, flanked by pair of three-bay two-storey bowed end bays. Three-bay three-storey rear elevation to north. Hipped slate roof with central valley, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack with limestone cappings and having cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted rendered walls, partly ruled-and-lined with projecting eaves band. Timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Limestone pedimented Doric doorcase having replacement timber door. Round-headed window at first floor of rear. Retaining interior features. Remains of farmyard complex, built c. 1800, to north about a courtyard. Courtyard comprising detached six-bay two-storey rubble stone-built range, now ruinous; detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone-built house, now ruinous and detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, now derelict. Gateway, built c. 1800, to south-west comprising pair of rusticated cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21303902
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- ATJWen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0
- John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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