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Ashfield House — Longford

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Ashfield House — Longford
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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1810, having two-bay single-storey addition, c. 1860, with pitched slate roof to northwest side elevation. Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack aligned parallel to roof ridge. Two rooflights to northwest pitch of roof. Remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Pitched natural slate roof to single-storey addition having rendered chimneystack to the northwest gable end. Square-headed window openings to main block with tooled limestone sills, having six-over-one and one-over-one panes to first floor windows. Wide tripartite type square-headed window openings to the ground floor openings, now blocked. Central round-headed door opening to the main elevation (northeast) with moulded cut limestone surround, and having timber panelled double doors (doors c. 1860) with metal door goods. Fanlight over doorway, now blocked. Flight of cut stone steps to entrance flanked to either side by rendered parapet walls. Chamfered cut limestone kerbing to area around basement to entrance front (northeast). Set in own grounds to the northeast of Longford Town centre. Modern developments to grounds. Complex of outbuildings (13401321) arranged around a courtyard to the northwest of the house.

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