House in Farmersvale, County Dublin

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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1780. Attic storey with windows in gables, floating pediment and rere dormers. Roughcast rendered walls with granite quoins and eaves course. Three-storey projection to rere. Central floating pediment with semi-circular window. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with fanlight and granite block and start surround. Flight of stone steps to entrance. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimney stacks. Various outbuildings to north-east. Single quadrant screen wall extending from east corner.

This house, though recently refurbished, retains its original handsome, balanced late-eighteenth-century proportions, and is an imposing presence fronting onto a narrow country road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11217003

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