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Sunmount House — Dublin Road

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Sunmount House — Dublin Road
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Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1860, with two-bay two-storey return to rear with catslide roof, recent single-bay single-storey extension to rear. Box-bay windows with hipped roofs, one to south side elevation and two flanking round-topped porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks to main block and rendered to return, cut limestone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Front elevation has camber-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, square-headed to first floor and segmental-headed to ground floor. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to south elevation, and square and camber-headed timber casements to north elevation. All window openings having painted concrete sills. Square-headed tripartite fixed timber frames to bay windows, with stained glass to upper sections. Porch comprising segmental-headed opening with moulded archivolt, square-headed doorway with timber panelled half-glazed double doors with overlight, moulded timber architrave, and timber panelled risers to glazed sides of porch. Square-headed entrance doorway to house proper, with timber panelled half-glazed double doors and segmental overlight. Site bounded by cast-iron railings, with rendered plinth wall, rendered square-profile piers with cut limestone caps and cast-iron double-leaf gates of c.1950. Recent limestone name plaque to pier.

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