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The Rectory — GURTEEN

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The Rectory — GURTEEN
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Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement former rectory, built c. 1850, with balustraded portico to front elevation, single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to rear and single-bay single-storey lean-to outbuilding to east elevation. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with exposed rubble sandstone to rear. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having render surrounds and sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Rear elevation has round-headed timber casement window with spoked fanlight and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and one blocked window. Timber six-over-six pane windows and casement windows elsewhere. Segmental-headed door opening to front elevation with timber panelled double-leaf doors and fanlight, having rendered portico to front with fluted columns and engaged columns, frieze and concrete cornice surmounted by concrete balustrade. Square-headed door opening to east addition with recent timber door and overlight. Concrete balustraded boundary wall to area. Outbuildings to rear comprising four-bay lofted single-storey range to north with pitched slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble sandstone walls, elliptical-arched vehicular entrances with cut sandstone voussoirs, segmental-arched windows to loft floor with red brick voussoirs and square-headed openings with cut sandstone voussoirs and timber fittings. Single-bay single-storey lean-to block to east with corrugated-iron roof, rendered rubble sandstone walls, and square-headed corrugated-iron door. Camber-arched pedestrian entrance to west with metal gate, elliptical entrance archway to east having sandstone voussoirs and double-leaf wrought-iron gates and road entrance to south comprising panelled cast-iron square-profile piers with urn finials and wrought-iron double-leaf spearheaded gates set to rendered sweep walls with cast-iron spearheaded railings.

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