Glenbrook, house in County Limerick

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having bay windows to ground floor. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves having timber brackets. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings to first floor having concrete sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and timber shutters. Square-headed openings to bay windows with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening having spoked fanlight over double-leaf timber panelled doors. Brick steps to entrance. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south-west with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered walls having cast-iron railings.

An attractive, well proportioned house, which is identified by distinctive features such as the overhanging eaves which enhance the architectural value of the composition. Well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with much of the original form intact, together with a number of important salient features and materials.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21807038

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CooleHouse · 31 yd

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The Ferry PlaygroundChildren's playground · 1064 ydComputer-made picture

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Children's playground1554 ydComputer-made picture

Explorer Tom Children's playground has caught my eye in County Limerick. I bet a children's playground with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

Lough Derg WayWalking route · 1.6 miComputer-made picture

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