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House in Avalreagh
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having shallow windbreak to front elevation, and gabled return and flat-roofed extension to return, latter continuing beyond gable and in use as post office. Hipped replacement slate roof, having symmetrically-placed red brick chimneystacks, and replacement uPVC…

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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having shallow windbreak to front elevation, and gabled return and flat-roofed extension to return, latter continuing beyond gable and in use as post office. Hipped replacement slate roof, having symmetrically-placed red brick chimneystacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, with rusticated quoins to east elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to front, north and part of rear elevations, and replacement timber and uPVC casement windows to rear and to return and extension. Square-headed main doorway, with replacement uPVC door. Low rendered sandstone and limestone rubble boundary wall terminating in round-plan rendered gate piers with square-plan pointed stone caps and wrought-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate accessing rear to north. Ancillary twentieth-century farm buildings to rear. Located adjacent to former Dublin to Derry road.
This house has considerable presence in the roadscape at Clontibret. Its social function as a post office gives it a particular status. The building is enhanced by details such as its windbreak, the paired chimneystacks and the retention of timber sash windows. Its setting is pleasant, with a garden to the front having wrought-iron gates. The windbreak and the diminishing first floor window openings are characteristic of Irish vernacular architecture.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41401419

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Recorded change of use
Originally house; recorded by the architectural inventory as post office
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