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Bloomfield House — Hollymount

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Bloomfield House — Hollymount
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Detached three- or five-bay (five-bay deep) three-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1769[?]; extant 1777, on a square plan with three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1924. Intact, 1930. Vacant, 1931. Resold, 1933. In ruins, 1945. Roof now missing with overgrown central chimney stacks, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles. Creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base. Outline of hipped segmental-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Outline of square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (upper floors) with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with square-headed (ground floor) or round-headed (first floor) window openings to rear (north) elevation centred on round-headed window opening, drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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