Glebe House in Knockalehid, rectory in County Clare

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Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement glebe house, built c. 1800. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with tripartite overlight, approached by flight of steps. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding with elliptical-headed openings. Rubble stone boundary walls and piers with wrought-iron gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20405003

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