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Killinan House — Kilchreest

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Killinan House — Kilchreest
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Detached irregular-plan Church of Ireland rectory, built c.1800. Front elevation is four-bay two-storey over raised basement, with stepped plan having entrance bay flanked by recessed bay to west and projection to east having two-bay first and single-bay ground floor, latter with canted bay window to front. Side elevations are two bays and three storeys. Rear has recessed two-bay two-storey block. Hipped slate roofs, with pitched slate roofs to entrance bay and to return to rear, with some cast-iron rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls, partly lined-and-ruled. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows. Front elevation having two-over-two pane windows to top floor with ogee horns, one-over-one pane canted bay window, eight-over-four pane with render sills to basement. West elevation has six-over-three pane windows to top floor, tripartite one-over-one pane to middle and quadripartite timber casements to ground floor. East elevation has two-over-two pane windows. Round-headed door opening with cut-stone block-and-start surround, having timber panelled door with spoked fanlight, approached by flight of eight limestone steps with tooled parapet walls. Yard to rear entered through gateway having square-plan cut limestone piers with moulded cornices and domed caps, with rubble boundary walls having dressed stone copings. Road entrance has rubble piers with double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate.

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