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Clodiagh House — Lower Queen's Street

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Clodiagh House — Lower Queen's Street
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1862 - 1863, possibly over basement on an L-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey recessed central bay having three-bay single-storey lean-to open veranda, single-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking end bays, three-bay two-storey side elevation to west, two-bay two-storey side elevation to east having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to east, and three-bay single-storey return with half-dormer attic to north-east. Extensively renovated and extended, post-1999, comprising two-bay single-storey wing to east to return to accommodate use as institution. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to end bays; lean-to to veranda; gabled to half-dormer attic windows) with replacement fibre-cement slate, post-1999, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimney stacks (some paired), decorative timber bargeboards, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, post-1999, on timber eaves having elongated corbels. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered medallions to gables. Unpainted replacement cement render, post-1999, to rear (north) elevation and to return. Combination of pseudo-three-centre- and shallow elliptical-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to ground floor advanced end bays) with stone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows with some replacement models, post-1999. Square-headed window openings to return (elliptical-headed to west elevation of return possibly remodelled, post-1999) with stone sills, and no dressings. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows. Pseudo-three-centre-headed door opening under veranda having three cut-granite steps, replacement iron pillars, post-1999, moulded rendered surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, post-1999. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam drive leading to forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Remains of detached multiple-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, built 1862 - 1863, to north on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard with series of shallow segmental-headed carriageways. Now in ruins. Roofs now gone. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and traces of unpainted lime render over having corbel table to parapet. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Fittings now gone. Series of shallow segmental-headed carriageways with squared rubble stone voussoirs. Fittings now gone.

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