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House in Gartnaneane
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Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1890, having projecting single-bay porch to eastern bay with side door. Now disused. Pitched slate roof having central red brick chimneystack, hipped roof to porch, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render over rubble stone walls with…

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Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1890, having projecting single-bay porch to eastern bay with side door. Now disused. Pitched slate roof having central red brick chimneystack, hipped roof to porch, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render over rubble stone walls with brick dressings, smooth rendered plinth. One-over-one timber sash windows with patent reveals and stone sills. Panelled timber door. Set back from the road and bordered by low rubble stone wall, stone steps from road flanked by curved walls. Attached single-storey outbuilding to north, rubble stone and corrugated-iron outbuilding to south.
A small house of standardised design of the type built by local authorities from 1883 onwards under the Labourers Acts, their form and siting derived from vernacular traditions. The house is characteristed by a simplicity of form retaining much of its historic fabric including the sash windows in characteristic arrangement with upper level gable windows, and a timber door. It is a good example of a building type which has become an identifying feature of the Irish countryside, making a strong contribution to the landscape setting to the west of Bailieborough.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40402808

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Coleman Photographic Collection; photographer unknown, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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