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worker's house — Ardagh

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worker's house — Ardagh
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Semi-detached three-bay single-storey former estate worker's house on T-shaped plan, built c. 1863, with advanced gabled bay to the east end of the main façade (south) and return to the rear (north) having pitched slate roof. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, one rebuilt. Snecked rock-faced sandstone walls over limestone plinth with dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds with carved detail to lintels, stone sills, and metal frame windows with pivoting panes. Pointed segmental arch entrance opening, having dressed limestone block-and-start surround and replacement glazed timber door. Accessed via stone step. Landscaped gardens to front and east, with snecked rock-faced limestone boundary wall with chamfered dressed limestone coping and wrought-iron gate. Yard to rear, with outbuildings having hipped and pitched slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods, snecked stone walls, and square- and segmental-headed openings with timber battened doors. Snecked rock-faced stone boundary wall to rear (north) with wrought-iron gate. Located to the west of the centre of Ardagh.

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