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Murphy's Cottage — MILLTOWN (Forth By., Kilscoran ED)

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Murphy's Cottage — MILLTOWN (Forth By., Kilscoran ED)
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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed wire scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered battered buttress to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road with rendered cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting timber double gates.

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