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Abington House

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Abington House
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Detached L-plan seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790. Hipped and pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and return to rear. Rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed opening with limestone sills, some with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having render surround. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with hipped slate roof. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to west elevation. Multiple-bay two-storey L-plan range of outbuildings to south-east having pedimented elliptical-headed carriage arch to centre-bay. Hipped and pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Blind roundels to first floor having inset arrow slit windows. Oculus to pediment centre-bay. Camber-headed door openings. Camber-headed carriage arch. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to west leading to courtyard.
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