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Lismore House — Crossdoney

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Lismore House — Crossdoney
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Symmetrical pair of detached six-bay two-storey flanking wings to former Lismore House, built c.1730, having advanced outermost end bays to each block, single-bay two-stage flanking tower formerly attached to south corner of house having single-bay extension to north. Now subdivided into separate ownership and in use a pair of detached houses. Pitched slate roofs with curvilinear gables facing site of former house. Rubble stone walls having red brick quoins, eaves course, and string course. Red brick surrounds to oculi at first floor over round-headed ground-floor windows and central segmental-headed door. Replacement windows and doors. Blind lunette and oculus to gables facing former house. Irregular arrangement of brick dressed openings to rear, many openings recently inserted. Tower having mansard slate roof, rubble stone walls with cut-stone platbands, cut-stone surrounds to window openings, round-headed openings with raised keystone and impost blocks to former ground floor, and segmental-headed openings to former basement level. Wings formerly joined to house by curved brick clad screen wall. Remodelled rubble stone outbuilding to south of house site, further complex of outbuildings across the road from Lismore Lodge.

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