Armstead, house in County Clare

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What is recorded here

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, renovated c. 1900 with timber shopfronts inserted to front elevation and to gable. Two-bay two-storey lean-to return added to rear. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Shopfronts comprising pilasters flanking openings with fascia and moulded cornice above. Timber panelled doors and boarded opening to street elevation shopfront. Fixed window to gable shopfront. Timber sliding sash windows. Timber panelled shutters to interior. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone barrel-roofed outbuilding to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to rear.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20300213

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