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Rockford House — BALLYHIMIKIN (NEWCHAPEL PR)

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Rockford House — BALLYHIMIKIN (NEWCHAPEL PR)
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Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1820, with three-bay rear return to south having canted end bays, and having infill additions to north end of rear. Hipped slate roof with over-sailing eaves with decorative coved cornice and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with channelled quoins and having string course between floors and to top of plinth, channelled render to plinth and render panels below ground floor windows. Mainly one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having moulded render surrounds to front elevation and to return. Two-over-two pane timber sash windows to addition and barred two-over-two pane to basement of return. Double-leaf timber door with diamond-pointed panels set into recess fronted by square-plan columns set on plinths and having render surround with dentils and moulded cornice, accessed by flight of stone steps with limestone parapet walls.

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