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Hymenstown House

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Hymenstown House
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Detached six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1860, having bay window to east end of façade and two-bay two-storey extension to west gable. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to façade of main block, with limestone sills. Bay window comprising six-over-nine pane window flanked by four-over-six pane windows, with moulded heads to windows, moulded pilasters between windows bearing on carved limestone corbels which are part of continuous limestone sill. Barred windows to basement. Segmental-headed entrance opening with decorative spoked fanlight and timber panelled double-leaf door having carved consoles, panelled pilasters and paned flanking three-quarter sidelights. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to west having pointed arch opening with timber battened door.

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