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House in Ballinvoher [car. by.]
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Detached single-storey with attic stone house, built c. 1885. Asymmetric front elevation with single dormer centrally-located over paired ground floor windows to east side, single-storey pitched roof return to centre rear (west). Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, hipped dormer window, brick corbelled…

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Detached single-storey with attic stone house, built c. 1885. Asymmetric front elevation with single dormer centrally-located over paired ground floor windows to east side, single-storey pitched roof return to centre rear (west). Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, hipped dormer window, brick corbelled chimneystack, painted zig-zag-edged projecting timber bargeboards, profiled extruded aluminium gutters c. 2000 on painted timber overhanging eaves. Coursed rubble limestone walling, tooled squared limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, yellow brick dressings, limestone sills, uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings, yellow brick dressings, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Fronting gravel path, lawns, rubble stone boundary wall, wrought-iron gate to road. Enclosed yard to south, two-storey pitched roof rubble stone outbuilding to west, tooled limestone gate piers, wrought-iron gates.
This substantial little house was reputedly built as a 'herdsman's cottage' for the nearby, now non-existent, Creighton Estate. Its strangely asymmetric front elevation contains a pleasing combination of rubble masonry, yellow brick dressings and natural slate roofing. The enclosed yard to the rear with outbuilding imparts a coherence to the group which sits prominently but comfortably in the landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32403319

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Neville Goodman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jon Sullivan, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Eastern Harps GAA Club; individual photographer not named, www.easternharps.com
  • Eamonn McMunn / Sligo GAA (credit printed on photograph), www.sligogaa.ie
  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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