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Lake View

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Lake View in Fastry has a grand formal doorway, but its two round gate pillars are wearing pointed caps. The house is trying to receive distinguished company while the entrance insists it knows where the wizard lives.
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having recent extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, having painted masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by fluted pilasters and sidelights and having spoked fanlight. Outbuildings to rear, having pitched slate roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Entrance to north, comprising roughcast rendered round-plan piers having conical capstones.
Despite the loss of original windows, this house retains its form and scale, and is typical of middle-sized houses built in the Georgian era, although the iconic style remained popular up until the twentieth century. The paired chimneystacks and tall windows provide a vertical counterpoint to the horizontal emphasis of the broad frontage. The formal properties of the house are enhanced and emphasised by the render dressings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402210

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • D Gore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Pamela Norrington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. View image on Flickr View all images from book View catalogue entry for book ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Allie_Caulfield from Germany, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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