Rathcline Glebe House — GLEBE (RATHCLINE BY.)

Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1860, having multiple-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear (southeast). Now in use as private house. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered central chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls projecting rendered plinth course (elevation). Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor. Timber window shutters visible to interior. Central round-headed doorway to main elevation (northwest) having recessed doorway with double leaf timber panelled door and with moulded lintel and spoked fanlight over. Cut stone steps to doorway. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear (southeast) having pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered random rubble limestone walls (exposed to southwest end of main elevation, northwest), square-headed window and door openings with replacement fittings, and segmental-headed carriage arch with replacement timber double-doors. Entrance to yard from the southeast side of house through gateway comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gates. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Lanesborough, and to the east of ruinous church and graveyard (13401705). Associated church, St. John’s Church of Ireland Church, to the north at Lanesborough (13310007). Main entrance gates to the north comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts with pyramidal heads and cast-iron double-gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the north.