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Butler House — Patrick Street

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Butler House — Patrick Street
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Semi-detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1786, with pair of three-bay full-height bowed bays to rear (east) elevation. Extended, 1832, comprising two-bay three-storey perpendicular block to right. Renovated, 1972. Now in use as hotel. One of a pair. Pitched (shared) slate roof on a U-shaped plan (continuing into half-conical roofs to bowed bays; hipped slate roofs to perpendicular block on a U-shaped plan) with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging moulded cut-limestone eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rendered quoins to ends, and ivy-clad unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window openings to ground floor perpendicular block) with cut-limestone sills, six-over-six and three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with four cut-limestone steps having iron railings, limestone ashlar doorcase having freestanding Ionic columns with responsive pilasters, dosserets supporting open bed pediment having panelled underside, cut-limestone surround to door opening, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with sections of iron railings to front on cut-limestone plinth, and landscaped grounds to rear (east).

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