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farm house — BALLYNAHOWN

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farm house — BALLYNAHOWN
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Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile over part raised basement farmhouse, built 1702; extant 1777, on an L-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey double-pile. Burnt, 1798. Vacant, 1837. Truncated, pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1939. Renovated, ----. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to rear (west) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base with rusticated rendered quoins to ends; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation. "Venetian Door" approached by flight of six cut-granite steps, cut-granite doorcase with engaged columns on padstones supporting ball finial-topped "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on blind frieze on broken entablature, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight with fixed-pane sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast diagonal piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped stepped capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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