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Lissavaddy House

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Lissavaddy House
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Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1800, now in disuse. Pitched nature slate roof with raised cut stone verges to gable ends (southwest and northwest) and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Three rendered rubble limestone masonry chimneystacks, one to either gable end and one offset to the centre. Dressed limestone eaves course to the rear. Roughcast render over coursed rubble limestone masonry walls. Flush dressed limestone quoins evident to the corners to the rear (southeast). Square-headed window openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows having tooled limestone sills. Square-headed window opening to gable haunch to the northeast end, fittings no longer in-situ. Round-headed opening to the centre of the main elevation with chamfered cut limestone surround having carved keystone and rusticated pilasters with glazed overlight and timber panelled door. Rubble stone boundary wall attached to the northwest gable end. Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear, c. 1820 and c. 1860. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to southwest having pitched corrugated-metal roof and painted roughcast rendered walls. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to northeast having pitched corrugated-metal roof. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with limestone sill. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Full-height segmental-headed carriage arch with brick voussoirs to the northeast end of the main elevation (northwest). Set back from road in extensive grounds to the east of Longford Town. Long approach avenue to the house from the north/northeast.

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