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Griffinstown House

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Griffinstown House
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Detached three-bay two-storey over a basement neoclassical house, built c.1820, with an open cut limestone tetrastyle Greek Ionic entrance porch to the centre of the front façade (north) and a full-height bow-shaped projection to the west elevation. Double hipped natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, a pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks aligned parallel to roof ridge and a cut limestone eaves cornice. Bracketed eaves to the rear (south). Constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble over projecting ashlar limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorcase to main elevation (north,) behind porch, with a glazed timber door flanked by sidelights. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with complex of outbuildings to the east (15402703) and main entrance gates to the north (15402704). Located to the west of Kinnegad.

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