Breenagh House, County Sligo

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End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey rendered house with gable-fronted dormer attic, c. 1890, with projecting single-storey canted bay window to ground floor north and wall to north with door giving access to rear garden. One of a group of seven. Pitched slate roof, painted timber barge boards to projecting verge to north gable with painted timber sheeted soffit, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystack, painted timber dormer window with decorative barges on bracketed corbels and scalloped vertical sheeting to tympanum, lead hips to bay, extruded aluminium moulded gutters on painted timber fascia, cast-iron downpipe. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed entrance door opening, simple moulded rendered surround, plain-glazed overlight with house name and number, painted timber six-panel door with original ironmongery. Square-headed door opening to side wall, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, painted smooth-rendered walling, saddleback coping. Set back slightly from street with small garden area to front bounded by cast-iron flat-pattern railings on painted smooth-rendered plinth wall.

This house forms an integral part of the terrace of which it is part. The attractive dormer window, with fine carved timber detailing, imparts a particular character to the street. This house, and the group as a whole, are fundamental to preserving the overall appearance of the streetscape. It is of particular importance as it retains much of its original fabric, such as sash windows, panelled door and decorative cast-iron railings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32006029

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