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Leitrim House — KNOCKASKEHANE

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Leitrim House — KNOCKASKEHANE
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Detached five-bay two-storey T-plan house with attic, built c. 1680, facing east and having two-pile two-storey addition of c. 1900 at right angles to front elevation, latter having two-storey box-bay projection to south side, and later flat-roof two-bay two-storey addition to south-west angle. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, that to north gable being heavy and projecting, timber consoles to front elevation and to elevations of double-pile addition, and with bargeboards to gables of latter. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with mullioned and transomed timber casement windows to front elevation, in triple, quadruple and five-light arrangements. Double six-pane and double three-pane timber casement windows and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation, and six-over-six pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and four-pane timber casement windows to gable of return, with two-over-two pane and six-over-six pane windows to flat-roof addition. Flat-roof timber canopy over entrance in northern gable of double-pile addition, having carved timber brackets over entrance comprising long square-headed paned overlight, with timber lintel below over square-headed timber panelled door flanked by four-pane fixed timber sidelights with render sills. Cut limestone carriage archway to rear, leading to courtyard of outbuildings, and having limestone imposts, string course to parapet and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates, set to rubble sandstone walls. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding having three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear with corrugated-iron roof, main block having pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed fixed timber windows, square-headed metal doors, with remains of segmental-arched vehicular entrance. Lean-to has corrugated-iron roof, coursed roughly dressed limestone walls, square-headed openings with limestone block and start surrounds, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and replacement metal doors. Remains of medieval Leitrim Castle to grounds of house. Painted rendered square-profile piers to road entrance, with rendered boundary walls.

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