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Bessborough House

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Bessborough House
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Detached two-pile four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with canted bay to southeast, garden block and with extensions to northwest and southwest. Incorporates fabric of earlier building. Pitched slate roof to southeast block, hipped elsewhere, with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, chamfered to north corner of northwest block. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-three pane to first and six-over-nine and three-over-three to rear, with some casement, all with cut limestone sills. Square-headed door opening to northeast gable of north-west block, with paned over-light. Single-storey outbuildings with slightly projecting two-storey part, with hipped and pitched slate roofs, rendered brick walls, square-headed windows and segmental-headed doorways and with brick entrance gateway with flattish segmental arch with pedimented rendered brick bellcote. Cut-stone pedestrian gate to site.

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