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Ballinluska House — Myrtleville

coastguard station
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Ballinluska House — Myrtleville
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Detached five-bay two-storey former coast guard station, built c.1890, having two-storey box end-bays to front (south). Single-storey lean-tos to sides (east and west) and rear (north). Gable-fronted bartizan oriels to sides (east and west) on moulded rendered corbels. Currently vacant. Hipped slate roof with moulded render eaves course with brackets. Timber corbels to rear. Red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Single pitched slate roofs to lean-to additions. Roughcast rendered walls having rendered plinth with chamfered coping, having red brick quoins to box bays. Rendered walls to oriels having chamfered moulding to camber-headed bases. Camber-headed window openings with chamfered limestone sills to front elevation and oriels, having red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs to front elevation. Remains of timber casement windows to front elevation and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to oriels. Square-headed window openings with chamfered limestone sills to rear elevation and box bays, having timber casement windows to box bays. Openings to rear elevation blocked with timber sheeting. Camber-headed door opening to side (east) and rear elevations having timber panelled door to rear opening.

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