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St Finbarr's Cemetery — Glasheen Road

sexton's house
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St Finbarr's Cemetery — Glasheen Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey former sexton's house, built c.1865, adjacent to entrance gates to St Finbarr's Cemetery and having two-storey gable-fronted advanced bays on either side of the centrally placed lean-to entrance porch. Pitched slate roofs with ceramic ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, tall brick chimneystacks having brick string course and cornice with small ceramic pots, timber bargeboards to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Exposed basalt-faced walls having cut limestone quoins and plinth and brick-faced wall to interior of porch. Polychromatic alternating limestone and basalt to relieving arches above window heads. Square-headed window openings with limestone surrounds, limestone splayed sills flush with the wall and timber casement windows. Tripartite casement window to the south elevation. Central entrance porch having lean-to slate roof and twin shouldered-arches supported on a central limestone column having a foliate capital. Sheeted timber door with limestone threshold and tiled floor to porch. Small yard to rear enclosed with high limestone wall.

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