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Doorus House

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Doorus House
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, dated 1866, having projecting central gabled entrance bay to front (south) elevation, gabled dormer windows to end bays of upper floor, full-height canted bay windows to east and west gables, and recent single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (north) elevation. Now in use as a youth hostel. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to canted bay ends, with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls, pebbledashed to rear. Inscribed limestone plaques over doorway and window to entrance bay. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed doorway with half-glazed timber panelled door and limestone threshold. Rubble limestone walls to square-plan walled garden, having square-headed doorway to south elevation with wrought and cast-iron gates. Gateway to north-west of house having single cut limestone pier with limestone string course, and rubble limestone flanking wall remaining to road entrance.

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