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Prospect House in Newtown

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Prospect House in Newtown
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Prospect House in Newtown still has open parkland in front, despite modern houses crowding around it. It has survived the family photograph by insisting everyone else stand at the back. You’d have a job telling a house with entrance steps to move down a bit.

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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1820. Smooth rendered front wall, slate hung to sides and rere. Single-pane timber sash windows. Timber panelled door with flanking side lights and timber surround, all under wide plain fanlight. Approached by flight of steps. Hipped slate roof with two central rendered chimney stacks. Two-storey smooth rendered section to rere. Gateway entrance with small ruinous lodge to west.
Although surrounded by modern housing, this handsome Georgian house retains much original fabric including its many outbuildings. The open parkland to the front allows a fuller appreciation of its imposing presence, offering a suggestion of its former dominance in the landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11216032

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Dave Addey at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Syncretists, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Olivier BEZES, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; D18Jessica, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; AndrewH at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Coffeecup2, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Joe King, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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