Ard Lui, house in County Limerick

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, built on a raised platform, with a centrally-placed three-sided entrance bay having bay window above, and a two-storey return. Hipped natural slate roof with black ridge tiles and a chimney to either end made of rock-faced composite blocks and terracotta pots. Replacement metal rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls at first floor level. Rock-faced composite block faced walls at ground floor level and side elevation. Plain rendered rear elevation. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with composite smooth block surround and having concrete sills. Nine-over-one timber sash windows with ogee horns, and much cylinder glass surviving. uPVC windows to rear elevation. Central three-sided canted entrance bay with window above, supported on columns. Smooth composite block door surround to flat-panelled glazed timber door. Tarmacadamed front site with lawn. Long narrow entrance passage with flanking red brick piers. Set of late twentieth-century inner piers closed by steel gate.

A well-maintained early twentieth-century house, employing innovative materials giving the effect of a traditional rock-faced stone finish. Positioned to the rear of an earlier terrace, this house has quite an individualistic identity, which is hidden away from the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21512017

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