Kilrush Rectory — BALLYRANKIN

Detached three-bay single-storey double-pile Church of Ireland rectory with half-dormer attic, built 1870, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch; three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1968. Resold, 1985. Renovated, 1986. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront); pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered ruled and lined buttressed "wallhead" chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, perforated timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with red brick block-and-start surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.