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Welleran House — Dunsany Crossroads

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Welleran House — Dunsany Crossroads
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Detached three-bay single-storey worker's house with half-dormer attic, c.1870, on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront. Now disused. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, "Cavetto" coping to gables on cut-limestone kneelers with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee or thumbnail beaded consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with two steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing boarded-up door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road with wrought iron "estate railings" to perimeter.

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