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Rathrobin — Mountbolus

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Rathrobin — Mountbolus
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Detached five-bay two-storey country house with dormer attic, dated 1898, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Burnt, 1923. Now in ruins. Roofs now missing with ivy-covered limestone ashlar chimney stacks having ogee-detailed stringcourses below ogee-detailed cornice capping. Part ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined mass concrete walls on overgrown plinth with finial-topped ogee-detailed cut-limestone coping to gables. Tudor-headed door opening (porch) with three cut-limestone steps, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having moulded reveals with hood moulding. Tudor-headed door opening into country house with cut-limestone step threshold, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having moulded reveals centred on keystone. Square-headed window openings in multipartite arrangement with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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