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Buckstown House

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Buckstown House
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Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1777, on a T-shaped plan with shell of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1980. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof, lichen-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables with overgrown chimney stacks to apexes, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Slate hung lime rendered battered walls; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (gables). Round-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills now missing, and concealed dressings including timber lintels on red brick imposts with fittings now missing. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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