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Ballycumber House

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Ballycumber House
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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1627 and remodelled during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with ridge leading, rendered chimneystack with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render to quoins and eaves course carved stone date plaque to rear elevation reading 'IHS Dermot Coghlan Made This Castell In Anno Dni 1627'. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Venetian doorcase with round-headed door opening having tooled limestone surround, double timber panelled door with fanlight, flanked by square-headed sidelights that are surmounted by pulvinated friezes and moulded cornices. Vaulted tunnel to front of house and stone outbuildings to north-west. Ashlar gate piers with cast-iron gates and wheel guards to road. Walled garden to north-east of house.

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