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Tuskar Dwellings — Rosslare Harbour

lighthouse keeper's house
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Tuskar Dwellings — Rosslare Harbour
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End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey lighthouse keeper's house, built 1890, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1973. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. One of a terrace of four. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables on cut-granite ogee corbel kneelers with rendered chimney stacks to apexes on rendered chamfered bases having chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on yellow brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule; door opening into hall with timber surround framing timber panelled door; hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

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