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Cartron Hill — Battery Road

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Cartron Hill — Battery Road
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Detached four-bay two-storey house with attic level, built in 1896, having a canted single-bay gabled breakfront to the centre of the front elevation, single-bay single-storey box bay window with crenellations to the west gable end, recent porch addition to rear (north) elevation with pitched artificial slate roof and multiple recent multiple-bay single-storey extensions to east gable. Pitched artificial slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings and finials, two diagonally-set brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth and with a moulded brick string course at first floor level. Mock half timbering to gable ends and to projecting breakfront at gable level. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some bipartite and some paired, all with quarrel glazed overlights. Square-headed window opening with leaded textured glass to stairwell to rear elevation. Square-headed doorway to canted projection having half-glazed timber double-doors with multi-paned overlight. Set back from road, aligned at a right-angle to road alignment, in extensive grounds to the north of Longford Town. Square-profile dressed stone piers with replacement gates and crenellated rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage (west).

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