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Oghilly House
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Detached L-plan three-bay, two-storey house, built c.1770, with two-bay side elevations, and having L-plan arrangement of single-storey lean-to ancillary additions to rear re-entrant corner. Hipped slate roofs with paired centrally placed rendered chimneystacks with limestone cappings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, twelve-over-eight pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane to first floor. Round-headed stair window to north elevation of return, with nine-over at least six-pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight. Round-headed tooled limestone block-and-start doorcase with square-headed replacement timber panelled door, moulded lintel, and cobweb fanlight. Square-headed timber battened door to taller addition, with concrete step. Multiple-bay, single-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs continuing line of lower house lean-tos, having roughcast rendered walls, square-headed timber battened doors and one building having segmental-arch vehicular entrance, ranged around east, south and west sides of yard to west of house. Square-plan dressed limestone piers with cut-stone plinths and caps to road entrance, with cut limestone wheelguards and recent double-leaf metal gates, and flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances having dressed limestone lintels and recent timber battened doors, set to roughcast rendered flanking walls with roughly dressing coping stones.

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