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Creggan House — CREGGAN UPPER

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Creggan House — CREGGAN UPPER
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Group of four attached single-storey former worker’s houses associated with Creggan House (now demolished), built c.1900, each having a single-bay gable-fronted glazed timber entrance porch, two to the centre and one to either gable end (east and west). Canted bays to either end off main façade (south). Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, barge boards to gable ends, decorative terracotta ridge cresting with elaborate finials, cast-iron rainwater goods and four moulded red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting plinth. Porches are constructed of red brick to base with rendered walls over having half-timbered detailing. Canted bays constructed of brick. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows with cross detailing to upper sections. Windows arranged in groups of four along main elevation (south) with hoodmouldings over. Similar glazing pattern to porches. Square-headed openings to porch having timber and glazed timber doors. Located to the south of the site of Creggan House and to the southeast of Athlone. Rubble limestone wall to the rear (south) with freestanding tower to the west.

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