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Old Parochial House — Knockainy

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Old Parochial House — Knockainy
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Detached three-bay two-storey former presbytery, built c. 1860, having porch to front (north) elevation, two-bay single-storey lean-to and three-bay two-storey lean-to to rear (south) elevation. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, render parapet having cornice and balustrades to front. Roughcast rendered walls to first floor and rendered walls to ground floor. Square-headed opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Those to first floor having render surrounds, render entablature to ground floor windows. Square-headed openings to porch with inset round-headed fixed timber windows. Square-headed opening to porch having double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled doors. Pair of chamfered square-profile limestone piers to north with carved caps, plinths and double-leaf cast-iron gates, wrought-iron pedestrian gate to west. Roughly dressed limestone walls to site.

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