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Grinny's Cottage

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Grinny's Cottage
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Grinny's Cottage in Collon has two storeys, yet its roof barely clears the neighbours’ first-floor windows. It has the air of a small man standing on a chair during an argument, then discovering the other fellow is still sitting down.

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Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850. Projecting single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles crested to porch, decorative painted timber bargeboard to porch, red brick corbelled chimneystack on east party wall and gable of adjoining property, cast-iron gutters on brackets on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, concrete sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows with exposed cases; recessed rendered surround to porch windows, stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels. Facing green space, taller two-storey properties to east and west.
This house is notable within Market Square for its roof line which barely reaches above the first floor windows of its neighbours. It adds a charm and character to the northern side of Market Square and plays a positive role in the architectural heritage of the village.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13828015

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; Hopmans at nl.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Willard Rome, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Lior Kogan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Jan van Huchtenburgh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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