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The Old Post Office — Ardagh

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The Old Post Office — Ardagh
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Detached five-bay single-storey former estate worker's house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1863, having an advanced two-bay single-storey with attic level gable-fronted section to the north end of the main façade (east) and an advanced single-bay gabled porch offset to the south side of centre. Single-storey addition to the rear (west). Formerly in use as post office, now in use as private house. Pitched natural slate roofs, with rebuilt red brick (central) and rendered chimneystacks (rear pitch), cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber bargeboards to gables. Snecked rock-faced stone walls with dressed limestone quoins to the corners, and brass award plaques to former post office entrance. Square-headed window openings having chamfered dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds with cut stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Four centered arch entrance openings with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber battened doors. Trifoliated window opening to gable apex of entrance porch, with carved limestone surround. Set back from the road, with landscaped garden to front. Random rubble stone boundary wall to road frontage having chamfered dressed limestone coping, with wrought-iron gates. Located to the north of the centre of Ardagh.

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