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Fonthill House

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Fonthill House
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What is recorded here

Detached four-bay two-storey over basement former house, c. 1870, now in use as an office. Red brick walls with granite quoins and string courses, coursed limestone rubble walls to north. Granite surrounds with keystones to window openings housing timber sash windows. Hipped slate roof with timber bracketed eaves and red brick chimney stacks. Limestone rubble yard wall to west and north-west with segmental carriage arch. Cobbled lower yard to west. Granite gate piers to estate road entrance.
A handsome, attractively detailed Victorian house set in mature grounds. Excellent group survival of house, coach house, stables, yard and boundary walls of this property.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11202014

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Recorded change of use
Originally country house; recorded by the architectural inventory as office
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Carroll Pierce, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Murphy ( talk · contribs ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Harold Strong, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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