House in Calliaghstown Lower, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1880. Roughcast rendered walls with a smooth rendered base course. Timber casement windows. Gabled projecting porch with pointed window facing road. Hipped slate roof with two close-set roughcast rendered chimney stacks and wide projecting eaves. Pair of monolithic octagonal gate posts to street.

A substantially intact example of a type of house found throughout South Dublin, with simple, robust proportions and some attractive detailing.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11217004

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