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The Custom House — Lower O'Connell Street

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The Custom House — Lower O'Connell Street
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Attached corner-sited seven-bay two-storey over basement custom house, built c.1740, having three-bay breakfront to front and integral carriage arch. Now vacant. Later pitched roof extension and attached single-storey former stable block to rear (north-east) elevation. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with plinth to front (south-west) and side (south-east) elevations. Slate hanging to rear elevation having rendered wall to rear basement level. Square-headed diminishing window openings with stone sills having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with timber shutters to interior. uPVC casement window to side (south-east) elevation. Two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear extension. Round-headed door opening having render Gibbs surround having double-leaf timber panelled doors surmounted by fanlight having limestone stepped approach. Camber-headed carriage arch with channelled rendered surround to front elevation with rendered hood moulding. Recent double-leaf battened timber doors. Render reveal to rear opening of carriage arch. Attached five-bay single-storey former stable block to rear. Hipped slate roof. Lime-washed rubble stone walls having square-headed window and door openings. Rendered plinth with stone coping to front, rubble limestone boundary walls to rear with gate piers and wrought-iron gate. Set along roadside to front and within own grounds to rear.

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