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Kylemore Abbey — POLLACAPPUL

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Kylemore Abbey — POLLACAPPUL
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Detached gable-fronted former worker's house with attic, built c.1880, having three-bay elevation to north and three-bay gable-front to west, and attached outbuilding to south side. Pitched slate roof with red-brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and stepped gables, steps to front being red-brick and those to rear being rendered, with limestone copings, and having carved limestone finials to apexes. Pitched slate roofs to dormer windows in north elevation. Lined-and-ruled render over rubble limestone walls with red-brick quoin stones and eaves course. Square-headed window openings throughout having render sills and rendered reveals with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Oculus window opening to gable-front having red-brick surround and replacement pivoting window. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door. Painted rubble-stone walls to interior with raised cruck timber trussed roof. Paved area to front with limestone flags and steps. Outbuilding, now in use as museum, has single-bay gable-front and same construction and walling as worker's house and same gable-front treatment though lacking finial.

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